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Definition of Envelopments
1. envelopment [n] - See also: envelopment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Envelopments
Literary usage of Envelopments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The shapes of all polygonal and all cylindrical and conical forms are obtained
by simple development— that is, the envelopments of these bodies are marked ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1872)
"As you have remarked, envelopments have, for the most part, ... Secondary envelopments,
however, exist, and such may be called pseudomorphs or crystalloids, ..."
3. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, Sir W Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1885)
"... where all decays and dies, we have the illustration of an immortal principle
not only surviving the death of its natural envelopments ..."
4. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1872)
"As you have remarked, envelopments have, for the most part, ... Secondary envelopments,
however, exist, and such may be called pseudomorphs or crystalloids, ..."
5. Technique of Modern Tactics: A Study of Troop Leading Methods in the by Paul Stanley Bond, Michael Joseph McDonough (1916)
"Turning movements like envelopments, though to an even greater extent, ...
envelopments grade into turning movements and no sharp line can be drawn between ..."
6. Letters on Applied Tactics: Problems Dealing with the Operations of by Otto F. W. T. Griepenkerl (1914)
"Let me remind you, in regard to the expression "envelop," that "envelopments"
take place on the battlefield itself, consequently under the eyes of, ..."
7. The Hand Book of Hydropathy: For Professional and Domestic Use: with an by Josef Weiss (1849)
"Where the fever presents itself during the paroxysm with violence, we may venture
on one or two envelopments in wet sheets, to moderate the fever slightly: ..."
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