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What is the noun for envelopment?

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envelope
  1. A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.
  2. Something that envelops; a wrapping.
  3. A bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship; fabric that encloses the gas-bags of an airship.
  4. (geometry) A mathematical curve, surface, or higher-dimensional object that is the tangent to a given family of lines, curves, surfaces, or higher-dimensional objects.
  5. (electronics) A curve that bounds another curve or set of curves, as the modulation envelope of an amplitude-modulated carrier wave in electronics.
  6. (music) The shape of a sound, which may be controlled by a synthesizer or sampler.
  7. (computing) The information used for routing a message that is transmitted with the message but not part of its contents.
  8. (biology) An enclosing structure or cover, such as a membrane.
  9. (engineering) The set of limitations within which a technological system can perform safely and effectively.
  10. (astronomy) The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; a coma.
  11. An earthwork in the form of a single parapet or a small rampart, sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.
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  13. Examples:
    1. “The Archbishop, typing a few words, removed the paper, signed it, and placed it in the envelope.”
      “Our earth is surrounded by an envelope of air which is known as the atmosphere.”
envelopment
  1. The act of enveloping
  2. (military) An offensive action in which an attacking force moves over or around the enemy and attacks from the rear; see also pincer movement
  3. (fencing) An action to seize the opponent's blade in one line and lead it (without losing contact) through a full circle to end in the same line
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Rifle and cavalry corps were assigned for operations on the outer perimeter of envelopment.”
      “In addition, military planners weakened the right wing by flirting with a double-wing envelopment.”
      “I wish, for once, Washington could come out of his envelopment and show us what his real dimensions were.”
envelogram
  1. A mathematically-constructed graph of the envelope of a phonocardiogram signal
enveloper
  1. Something which envelops
  2. Examples:
    1. “To use tools like API, enveloper, developers can easily make encryption which is difficult to crack.”
      “Initial predation and parasitism by muricid whelks demonstrated by the correspondence between drilled holes and their apparent enveloper.”
envelopments
  1. plural of envelopment
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Through such envelopments, a commander could create kessels and systematically destroy an encircled enemy force.”
      “Suddenly, with flight, securing the flanks did not guarantee the security of the rear area, and though vertical envelopments took time to perfect, they were possible.”
envelograms
  1. plural of envelogram
envelopers
  1. plural of enveloper
envelopes
  1. plural of envelope
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The council believes up to 300 wrongly addressed envelopes slipped through the net.”
      “Handwriting which is used to address the envelopes is fluent, naturally written and not disguised, according to forensic experts.”
      “Pupils placed completed questionnaires, identified by study number only, in sealed envelopes.”
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