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動詞

enclosing

1. present participle and gerund of enclose

名詞

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.

形容詞

enclosing (not comparable)

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

同意語

• bounding

アナグラム

• closening, long since