envelopeとは

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɛn.və.ləʊp/, /ˈɒn.və.ləʊp/
• (General American) enPR: än′vəlōp', ĕn′vəlōp'; IPA^(key): /ˈɛn.vəˌloʊp/, /ˈɑn.vəˌloʊp/

名詞

envelope (複数形 envelopes)

1. A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.
   • 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:

     Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.

2. Something that envelops; a wrapping.
3. A bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship; fabric that encloses the gas-bags of an airship.
   • 1992, Lieutenant Colonel Donald E. Ryan, Jr, The airship's potential for intertheater and intratheater airlift, DIANE Publishing, page 46:

     They have no internal or external support structure, being simply a fabric bag (または envelope) filled with a lighter than air gas. Inside the envelope are one or more "ballonets", or smaller bags, which help maintain the envelope's shape.

4. (geometry) A mathematical curve, surface, or higher-dimensional object that is the tangent to a given family of lines, curves, surfaces, or higher-dimensional objects.
5. (electronics) A curve that bounds another curve or set of curves, as the modulation envelope of an amplitude-modulated carrier wave in electronics.
6. (music) The shape of a sound, which may be controlled by a synthesizer or sampler.
7. (computing) The information used for routing a message that is transmitted with the message but not part of its contents.
8. (biology) An enclosing structure or cover, such as a membrane.
9. (engineering) The set of limitations within which a technological system can perform safely and effectively.
10. (astronomy) The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; a coma.
11. An earthwork in the form of a single parapet or a small rampart, sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.

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同意語

• (something that envelops): wrapper
• (bag containing the lifting gas): gasbag

派生語

参考

• Wikipedia article on envelopes used for mailing
• Wikipedia article on envelopes in geometry

語源 2

See envelop.

発音

• enPR: ĕn-vĕl'əp, IPA^(key): /ɛnˈvɛləp/
• for audio, see envelop

動詞

envelope (三人称単数 現在形 envelopes, 現在分詞 enveloping, 過去形および過去分詞形 enveloped)

1. (nonstandard) Alternative spelling of envelop