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Etymology

PIE word *h₁én From French enveloppe. The engineering sense is derived from flight envelope. The verb is from the noun.

borrowed from enveloppe

Definitions

A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for…
A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.
Something that envelops
Something that envelops; a wrapping.
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A bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship
A bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship; fabric that encloses the gas-bags of an airship.
- They have no internal or external support structure, being simply a fabric bag (or envelope) filled with a lighter than air gas. Inside the envelope are one or more "ballonets", or smaller bags, which help maintain the envelope's shape.
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1. A mathematical curve, surface, or higher-dimensional object that is the tangent to a…
  A mathematical curve, surface, or higher-dimensional object that is the tangent to a given family of lines, curves, surfaces, or higher-dimensional objects.
2. A curve that bounds another curve or set of curves, as the modulation envelope of an…
  A curve that bounds another curve or set of curves, as the modulation envelope of an amplitude-modulated carrier wave in electronics.
3. The shape of a sound, which may be controlled by a synthesizer or sampler.
4. The information used for routing a message that is transmitted with the message but not…
  The information used for routing a message that is transmitted with the message but not part of its contents.
5. An enclosing structure or cover, such as a membrane
  An enclosing structure or cover, such as a membrane; a space between two membranes
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  The set of limitations within which a technological system can perform safely and…
  The set of limitations within which a technological system can perform safely and effectively.
  - push the envelope
7. The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet
  The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; a coma.
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  An earthwork in the form of a single parapet or a small rampart, sometimes raised in the…
  An earthwork in the form of a single parapet or a small rampart, sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.
  - make a blind all along the bottom of the ditch of the Envelope
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  To put (something) in an envelope.
  - Arthur Armytage drew the precious document from his bureau; and without trusting himself to a re-perusal, enveloped and re-enveloped—sealed and resealed it;—mounted his horse, and rode off to Greta Castle.
  - I suspect you write letters as hens lay eggs, find that Lady Hamilton finds them, envelopes them, puts them before you as official letters, and you direct them as per memorandum affixed.
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  Archaic form of envelop.
  - Again, if the plane of the impressed couple intersects the mean plane between N and C, it will envelope the cone whose focals are ON, ON′, and whose internal axis is therefore OA.

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Derived

back-of-an-envelope, back-of-the-envelope, banker's envelope, blind envelope, brown envelope journalism, brown envelope syndrome, bubble envelope, building envelope, concave envelope, convex envelope, Dahlke envelope, envelogram, envelopathy, envelope detector, envelope paradox, envelope-stuffer, envelope stuffer, flight envelope, floral envelope, Gaza Envelope, invitation envelope, kinematic envelope, manila envelope, nuclear envelope, opening of an envelope, padded envelope, penalty envelope, push the edge of the envelope, push the envelope, red envelope, return envelope, stretch the envelope, stripped-envelope supernova, transenvelope, viral envelope, window envelope, work envelope

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at envelope. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at envelope. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at envelope

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.