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English
Verb
enclosing
- present participle and gerund of enclose
Noun
enclosing (plural enclosings)
- That which encloses.
1611, The Holy Bible, (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Exodus 39:10-13: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.
- The act or situation by which something is enclosed.
1995, Frederick Garber, Repositionings, page 131: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.
Adjective
enclosing (not comparable)
- (geometry) Of a region, containing all points of a given set within its bounds.
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