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The act of enclosing something inside something else
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envelopment
Word definitions for envelopment in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Envelopment is the military tactic of seizing objectives in the enemy's rear with the goal of destroying specific enemy forces and denying them the ability to withdraw . Rather than attacking an enemy head-on as in a frontal assault an envelopment seeks ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Envelopment \En*vel"op*ment\, n. [Cf. F. enveloppement.] The act of enveloping or wrapping; an inclosing or covering on all sides. That which envelops or surrounds; an envelop.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of enclosing something inside something else [syn: enclosure , enclosing , inclosure ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1751, from envelop (v.) + -ment .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of enveloping 2 (context military English) An offensive action in which an attacking force moves over or around the enemy and attacks from the rear; see also pincer movement 3 (context fencing English) An action to seize the opponent's blade ...
Usage examples of envelopment.
As for putting your linga there, well, do not even consider it, but imagine the sensation of that close, soft, warm envelopment of it And behold the nipples, like thumbs, and their halos, like saucers, and all black as night against the golden fawn skin.
Italian Mobile Corps, with Trento and Trieste Divisions and elements German 90th Light Division, at Marada to prevent envelopment Agheila by us from south.
The higher embraces the lower, as it were, so that all development is envelopment.
Only by a strategy of envelopment, using Belgium as a pathway, could the German armies, in Schlieften’s opinion, attack France successfully.
The basic outline, if not the details, of the “colossal Cannae” prepared for the envelopment of the French and British armies was revealed and the identity of the author surmised.
Could they not in fact accomplish a true Cannae, the double envelopment that Schlieffen had held in the back of his mind?
Perhaps, after all, the two armies of the left wing could succeed in breaking through the French fortified line and in cooperation with the right wing bring about a true Cannae —a double envelopment.
The perfect Cannae that Schlieffen had dreamed of and renounced, the double envelopment by the left wing through Lorraine simultaneously with the right wing around Paris, now seemed possible of achievement.
But of course, said Major Dommes, he was obliged by Moltke’s instructions to warn of all the hazards of a counteroffensive of which the chief and overwhelming one was that it would be a frontal attack—that anathema of German military doctrine—with envelopment impossible because of the mountains and the French fortresses.
I have it from a confidential source on Samorset’s staff that Blount is being disciplined for the sloppy way he handled the Glasgow envelopment, and for his inability to quell the resistance.
His decision to break off battle at Charleroi when threatened with double envelopment by Billow’.
Achillas, you suffered the double envelopment, being hit on your flank as you engaged Petar.
Lee attacked on July 2 but was unable to achieve a double envelopment of the Union forces--though he did inflict heavy casualties.
The envelopments were continuous binds in which the point of his blade made complete circles.
He correctly predicated the German plan of attack upon a right-wing envelopment but, schooled in the French theories, estimated the force that would come down west ol the Meuse at no more than four divisions.