enclosing

noun, adj — 3 senses

enclosing

noun

1

That which encloses.

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.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 39:10-13:

2

The act or situation by which something is enclosed.

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.1995, Frederick Garber, Repositionings, page 131:

enclosing

adj

1

Geometry, Mathematics, Sciences Of a region, containing all points of a given set within its bounds.

Synonyms: bounding

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