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Definition of Envelop

1. Verb. Enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering. "Fog enveloped the house"

Definition of Envelop

1. v. t. To put a covering about; to wrap up or in; to inclose within a case, wrapper, integument or the like; to surround entirely; as, to envelop goods or a letter; the fog envelops a ship.

Definition of Envelop

1. Verb. (transitive) To surround or enclose. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Envelop

1. to cover completely [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Envelop

1. 1. That which envelops, wraps up, encases, or surrounds; a wrapper; an inclosing cover; especially, the cover or wrapper of a document, as of a letter. 2. The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; called also coma. 3. A work of earth, in the form of a single parapet or of a small rampart. It is sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it. 4. A curve or surface which is tangent to each member of a system of curves or surfaces, the form and position of the members of the system being allowed to vary according to some continuous law. Thus, any curve is the envelope of its tangents. 4. A set of limits for the performance capabilities of some type of machine, originally used to refer to aircraft. Now also used metaphorically to refer to capabilities of any system in general, including human organizations, especially. In the phrase push the envelope. It is used to refer to the maximum performance available at the current state of the technology, and therefore refers to a class of machines in general, not a specific machine. Push the envelope Increase the capability of some type of machine or system; usu. By technological development. Origin: F. Enveloppe. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Envelop

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of the Differential Calculus with Examples and Applications: A Text by William Elwood Byerly (1891)
"We ought, then, to be able to find the evolute of any curve by treating it as the envelop of the normals of the curve. Let y=fx be the equation of the ..."

2. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1856)
"... ovum by any aperture in its envelop, but that they penetrate forcibly the very substance of the envelop wherever they may come accidentally into contact ..."

3. Mathematical Questions and Solutions by W. J. C. Miller (1882)
"... A is a fixed point, and В moves along a given straight line ; prove that the envelop of the locus of С is a parabola. Solution by AH CURTIS, LL. ..."

4. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"The envelop is normally pyriform but changeable in shape. ... 155 (J54) envelop rigid or slightly flexible 156 156(157) Body filling the envelop ..."

5. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1856)
"... aperture in its envelop, but that they penetrate forcibly the very substance of the envelop wherever they may come accidentally into contact with it. ..."

6. Elements of Descriptive Geometry by J. B. Millar (1878)
"To find the vertex of a cone which shall envelop two given spheres^ ' Let C and 0 be the centres of the given spheres, and agb, dhe their horizontal ..."

7. Origin of Cultivated Plants by Alphonse de Candolle (1885)
"PLANTS CULTIVATED FOR THEII l FLOWERS, OR FOR THE ORGANS WHICH envelop THEM. Clove—Caryophyllus aromaticus, Linnaeus. The clove used for domestic purposes ..."

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