ENVELOPING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enveloping mean? 

• ENVELOPING (adjective)
  The adjective ENVELOPING has 1 sense:

1. surrounding and closing in on or hemming in

  Familiarity information: ENVELOPING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENVELOPING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Surrounding and closing in on or hemming in

Context example:

the army's enveloping maneuver

Similar:

close (at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other)

 Context examples 

The enveloping membrane of the body; includes, in addition to the epidermis and dermis, all of the derivatives of the epidermis, e.g., hairs, nails, sudoriferous and sebaceous glands, and mammary glands.

(Integumentary System, NCI Thesaurus)

Any component of the enveloping membrane of the body, including the epidermis and dermis, and all of the derivatives of the epidermis.

(Integumentary System Part, NCI Thesaurus)

A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue enveloping, separating, or binding together muscles, organs, and other soft structures of the body.

(Fascia, NCI Thesaurus)

Administration of the drug to the outside of the membrane enveloping the fetus.

(Extraamniotic Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)

Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to uncover a vast, complex dust structure, about 150 billion miles across, enveloping the young star HR 4796A.

(Hubble Finds Huge System of Dusty Material Enveloping the Young Star HR 4796A, NASA)

The Professor stood up:—He has so used your mind; and by it he has left us here in Varna, whilst the ship that carried him rushed through enveloping fog up to Galatz, where, doubtless, he had made preparation for escaping from us.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Buck multiplied himself, attacking from all sides, enveloping the herd in a whirlwind of menace, cutting out his victim as fast as it could rejoin its mates, wearing out the patience of creatures preyed upon, which is a lesser patience than that of creatures preying.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)