Definition of envelop

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Envelop (n.) A set of limits for the performance capabilities of some type of machine, originally used to refer to aircraft. Now also used metaphorically to refer to capabilities of any system in general, including human organizations, esp. in the phrase push the envelope. It is used to refer to the maximum performance available at the current state of the technology, and therefore refers to a class of machines in general, not a specific machine..

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Involve :: Involve (v. t.) To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery..
Atmosphere :: Atmosphere (n.) Any gaseous envelope or medium.
Envelop :: Envelop (n.) A work of earth, in the form of a single parapet or of a small rampart. It is sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it..
Volva :: Volva (n.) A saclike envelope of certain fungi, which bursts open as the plant develops..
Tenosynovitis :: Tenosynovitis (n.) Inflammation of the synovial sheath enveloping a tendon.
Fold :: Fold (v. t.) To inclose within folds or plaitings; to envelop; to infold; to clasp; to embrace.
Disclose :: Disclose (v. t.) To remove a cover or envelope from;; to set free from inclosure; to uncover.
Mantle :: Mantle (v. t.) To cover or envelop, as with a mantle; to cloak; to hide; to disguise..
Envelop :: Envelop (n.) A curve or surface which is tangent to each member of a system of curves or surfaces, the form and position of the members of the system being allowed to vary according to some continuous law. Thus, any curve is the envelope of its tangents..
Acalysinous :: Acalysinous (a.) Without a calyx, or outer floral envelope..
Inclose :: Inclose (v. t.) To put within a case, envelope, or the like; to fold (a thing) within another or into the same parcel; as, to inclose a letter or a bank note..
Pack :: Pack (n.) To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. See Pack, n., 5..
Ectoblast :: Ectoblast (n.) The outer envelope of a cell; the cell wall.
Emerge :: Emerge (v. i.) To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from the water or the ocean; the sun emerges from behind the moon in an eclipse; to emerge from poverty or obscurity..
Fold :: Fold (v.) That which is folded together, or which infolds or envelops; embrace..
Enwrap :: Enwrap (v. t.) To envelop. See Inwrap.
Envelop :: Envelop (n.) That which envelops, wraps up, encases, or surrounds; a wrapper; an inclosing cover; esp., the cover or wrapper of a document, as of a letter..
Coppering :: Coppering (n.) An envelope or covering of copper.
Incloud :: Incloud (v. t.) To envelop as in clouds; to darken; to obscure.
Snow-bound :: Snow-bound (a.) Enveloped in, or confined by, snow..
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