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How to pronounce envelopment in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms enclosing, enclosure, inclosure
Type of insertion, introduction, intromission
Has types boxing, packing, encasement, incasement
Derivation envelop

Examples of envelopment

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Although the victor, Sherman's attempts at envelopment had momentarily failed.
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Allied forces began an envelopment of the German forces remaining in Normandy.
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By 11 April the envelopment of Tobruk was complete and the first attack was launched.
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The Marines used the term vertical envelopment instead of air mobility or air assault.
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Firstly, that they were both a cavalry envelopment of the Ottoman flank.
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Pleasonton's attack plan called for a double envelopment of the enemy.
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However, it deprived Germany of the chance to force a decisive envelopment battle around Paris.
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Cover the walls with foam-board insulation so the lumber mass is inside the insulation envelopment.
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Bragg, learning of McCook's movement at Alpine, feared the Federals might be planning a double envelopment.
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  • Enclosure: the act of enclosing something inside something else
  • Enveloping(a): surrounding and closing in on or hemming in; "the army's enveloping maneuver"
  • Envelopment is the military tactic of surrounding an enemy in the field so that they are isolated in a pocket. The friendly forces can choose to attack the pocket or invest it (to stop supplies getting and to prevent breakouts) and wait for a beleaguered enemy to surrender.
  • (Enveloped) Applied to charges around which serpents are entwined. Also used in the case of laurel or other plants.
  • (Enveloping) an EDI management software function that groups all documents of the same type, or functioal group, and bound for the same destination into an electronic envelope. ...
  • (Enveloping) This is when, on a bar chart, the current session makes a higher high and a lower low than the previous session - it is said to be enveloping the previous session. ...
  • In concert hall acoustics, envelopment is the second component of spaciousness, and generally describes a listener's impression of the strength and directions from which the reverberant sound appears to arrive. ...
  • What fencing does to people who just want to "try it once"
  • To stall an opponent's extended blade, usually when it is extended in the high line, by engaging the foible with the forte and dropping the point, then returning it in a circular pattern to its original position. ...