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envelope
English
Etymology 1
From French enveloppe.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??n.v?.l??p/, /??n.v?.l??p/
- (General American) enPR: än?v?l?p', ?n?v?l?p'; IPA(key): /??n.v??lo?p/, /??n.v??lo?p/
Noun
envelope (plural envelopes)
- A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.
- Something that envelops; a wrapping.
- A bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship; fabric that encloses the gas-bags of an airship.
- (geometry) A mathematical curve, surface, or higher-dimensional object that is the tangent to a given family of lines, curves, surfaces, or higher-dimensional objects.
- (electronics) A curve that bounds another curve or set of curves, as the modulation envelope of an amplitude-modulated carrier wave in electronics.
- (music) The shape of a sound, which may be controlled by a synthesizer or sampler.
- (computing) The information used for routing a message that is transmitted with the message but not part of its contents.
- (biology) An enclosing structure or cover, such as a membrane; a space between two membranes
- (engineering) The set of limitations within which a technological system can perform safely and effectively.
- (astronomy) The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; a coma.
- An earthwork in the form of a single parapet or a small rampart, sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Wilhelm to this entry?)
Synonyms
- (something that envelops): wrapper
- (bag containing the lifting gas): gasbag
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- Wikipedia article on envelopes used for mailing
- Wikipedia article on envelopes in geometry
Etymology 2
See envelop.
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?n-v?l'?p, IPA(key): /?n?v?l?p/
- for audio, see envelop
Verb
envelope (third-person singular simple present envelopes, present participle enveloping, simple past and past participle enveloped)
- Archaic form of envelop.
- 1877, James Booth, A Treatise on Some New Geometrical Methods (page 209)
- 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.
- 1877, James Booth, A Treatise on Some New Geometrical Methods (page 209)
Portuguese
Etymology
From French enveloppe, from envelopper.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /?.v?.?l?.p?/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?.ve.?l?.pi/
- Hyphenation: en?ve?lo?pe
Noun
envelope m (plural envelopes)
- envelope
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superscribe
English
Etymology
From Latin superscr?bo (“write over”)
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /su?p??sk???b/
Verb
superscribe (third-person singular simple present superscribes, present participle superscribing, simple past and past participle superscribed)
- (transitive) to write on the exterior of, the surface of, or above.
- He superscribed each character with its Latin-alphabet equivalent.
- (transitive) to write (something) on the exterior of an object, such as a document or an envelope.
- His wife superscribed her own notes on each of his letters before sending them in packets to the editor.
- (transitive) To address (an envelope etc.).
- 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 121:
- That Friday, which began like any other, when my fate was brought up from the kitchen, superscribed to me, and put into my ignorant hand.
- 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 121:
Latin
Verb
superscr?be
- second-person singular present active imperative of superscr?b?
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