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enclosing

noun

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Wiktionary

adj

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

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.

  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.

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of enclose