envelopment

Questions about envelopment

What does envelopment mean?

envelopment means "the act of enclosing something inside something else".

How many syllables are in envelopment?

envelopment has 4 syllables and divides as en-ve-lop-ment under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for envelopment?

Close synonyms include enclosure, enclosing, inclosure. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is envelopment a common word?

envelopment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.