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envelope
/ˈɛnvə(ˌ)loʊp/
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What does envelope mean?
noun
- 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.
More meanings (10)
noun
- A mathematical curve, surface, or higher-dimensional object that is the tangent to a given family of lines, curves, surfaces, or higher-dimensional objects.
- A curve that bounds another curve or set of curves, as the modulation envelope of an amplitude-modulated carrier wave in electronics.
- The shape of a sound, which may be controlled by a synthesizer or sampler.
- The information used for routing a message that is transmitted with the message but not part of its contents.
- An enclosing structure or cover, such as a membrane; a space between two membranes
- The set of limitations within which a technological system can perform safely and effectively.
- 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.
verb
- (rare) To put (something) in an envelope.
- (archaic) Archaic form of envelop.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɛnvə(ˌ)loʊp/
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After carefully putting it back in the envelope, he sat thinking, with his head bowed down, and his eyes on the ground.
Then he counted the twenty thousand-franc notes in front of him and put the notes into the envelope, but without closing it.
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This envelope is trilobe in section, with internal rigging, which enables the car to be slung very close up to the envelope.
Underneath the huge envelope was suspended a brazier, so that the fabric of the balloon was in great danger of catching fire.
His mother noticed that he absent-mindedly replaced the letter in the envelope instead of reading it to her as was his custom.