envelopment

envelopment
    n 1: the act of enclosing something inside something else [syn:
         {enclosure}, {enclosing}, {envelopment}, {inclosure}]
    

Envelopment \En*vel"op*ment\, n. [Cf. F. enveloppement.]
   1. The act of enveloping or wrapping; an inclosing or
      covering on all sides.
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   2. That which envelops or surrounds; an envelop.
      [1913 Webster]
    

84 Moby Thesaurus words for "envelopment":
      bandage, bandaging, beleaguerment, besetment, besiegement, binder,
      binding, blanketing, blockade, blockading, blocking, blotting out,
      cementwork, cincture, circling, circumambience, circumambiency,
      circumcincture, circumflexion, circumjacence, circumposition,
      circumscription, cloaking, clouding, coating, confinement,
      containment, cordoning, coverage, covering, curtaining,
      dust jacket, eclipse, eclipsing, embracement, encincture,
      encirclement, enclosure, encompassment, enfoldment, envelope,
      environment, enwrapment, enwrapping, gift wrapping, girding,
      girdling, hiding, immurement, imprisonment, incarceration,
      inclusion, incrustation, investment, involvement, jacket,
      laying on, mantling, masking, obduction, obscuring, occultation,
      overlaying, overspreading, pargeting, pincer movement, plasterwork,
      quarantine, screening, sheathing, shielding, shrouding, siege,
      stuccowork, superimposition, superposition, surrounding,
      upholstering, upholstery, veiling, vertical envelopment, wrap,
      wrapper, wrapping