envelopment

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: en=vel=op=ment

CIDE DICTIONARY

envelopment, n. [Cf. F. enveloppement.].

•  The act of enveloping or wrapping; an inclosing or covering on all sides.  [1913 Webster]
•  That which envelops or surrounds; an envelop.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

envelopment

bandage, bandaging, beleaguerment, besetment, besiegement, binder, binding, blanketing, blockade, blockading, blocking, blotting out, cementwork, cincture, circling, circumambience, circumambiency, circumcincture, circumflexion, circumjacence, circumposition, circumscription, cloaking, clouding, coating, confinement, containment, cordoning, coverage, covering, curtaining, dust jacket, eclipse, eclipsing, embracement, encincture, encirclement, enclosure, encompassment, enfoldment, envelope, environment, enwrapment, enwrapping, gift wrapping, girding, girdling, hiding, immurement, imprisonment, incarceration, inclusion, incrustation, investment, involvement, jacket, laying on, mantling, masking, obduction, obscuring, occultation, overlaying, overspreading, pargeting, pincer movement, plasterwork, quarantine, screening, sheathing, shielding, shrouding, siege, stuccowork, superimposition, superposition, surrounding, upholstering, upholstery, veiling, vertical envelopment, wrap, wrapper, wrapping