Enclosing

Quick meaning: Enclosing is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of enclose.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of enclose.

More Meanings

1. That which encloses.
2. The act or situation by which something is enclosed.
3. (geometry) Of a region, containing all points of a given set within its bounds.

Example Sentences

Duane Duck is a play of boxes, explicit and implicit, frangible or firm; indeed, Duane Duck is a play about boxes, a performance of all manner of relations to enclosings.

And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. […] And they set in it four rows of stones: […] the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were enclosed in ouches of gold in their enclosings.

Word Forms

• enclosings

Synonyms for enclosing

Depending on context, synonyms include bounding, enclosure, enveloping, envelopment, inclosure.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include enclosure, envelopment, inclosure, enveloping, encircling, surrounding.

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