ENCLOSING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enclosing mean? 

• ENCLOSING (noun)
  The noun ENCLOSING has 1 sense:

1. the act of enclosing something inside something else

  Familiarity information: ENCLOSING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENCLOSING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of enclosing something inside something else

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

enclosing; enclosure; envelopment; inclosure

Hypernyms ("enclosing" is a kind of...):

insertion; introduction; intromission (the act of putting one thing into another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "enclosing"):

boxing; packing (the enclosure of something in a package or box)

encasement; incasement (the act of enclosing something in a case)

Derivation:

enclose (enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering)

 Context examples 

The outermost layer of the membranous sac enclosing the embryo in higher vertebrates.

(Chorion, NCI Thesaurus)

A lipid bilayer enclosing the part of the endoplasmic reticulum that has ribosomes located on the cytoplasmic-facing membrane.

(Membrane of the Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum, NCI Thesaurus)

A lipid bilayer enclosing an endosomal compartment.

(Membrane of the Endosome, NCI Thesaurus)

A lipid bilayer enclosing the portion of the endoplasmic reticulum that is free of ribosomes.

(Membrane of the Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum, NCI Thesaurus)

The double-layer membrane structure enclosing the nucleus in eukaryotic cells.

(Nuclear Membrane, NCI Thesaurus)

Well, on the knoll, and enclosing the spring, they had clapped a stout loghouse fit to hold two score of people on a pinch and loopholed for musketry on either side.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

"As we are!" repeated Mr. Rochester—"so," he added, enclosing me in his arms.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A lipid bilayer enclosing a Golgi compartment.

(Membrane of the Golgi Apparatus, NCI Thesaurus)

One of the paired female reproductive glands containing the ova or germ cells; the ovary's stroma is a vascular connective tissue containing numbers of ovarian follicles enclosing the ova.

(Ovary, NCI Thesaurus)

An enclosing border.

(Frame, NCI Thesaurus)