Encompassment
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Encompassment is a noun meaning The act of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded.
Meaning
The act of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded.
More Meanings
- Complete inclusion, with no outliers.
- (anthropology, sociology) A hierarchical structure such that when two elements of a whole are recognized as opposites, one of them is considered hierarchically superior, while the other is subordinated to the whole.
Example Sentences
By this encompassment and drift of question.
Interphalangeal extension is lost and no effective phalangeal grasp (encompassment) is possible.
When an object is grasped, 77% of the total encompassment is provided by metacarpophalangeal joint flexion; the remaining 23% is supplied by flexion of the interphalangeal joints.
However, the image of alimentary encompassment, everted when the child comes to eat pig himself or herself, is also one that could be of nurturance — of encompassment in a reproductive sense.
Word Forms
- encompassments
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include envelopment, embracement, encompasser, embrace, encirclement, enclosing.
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