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enclosing

  1. present participle and gerund of enclose

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enclosing (plural enclosings)

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

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enclosing (not comparable)

  1. (geometry) Of a region, containing all points of a given set within its bounds.

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