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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The process of englobing.

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Examples

  • The fancy ship detectors they'd had fitted on Uldune were registering a second layer of ships-an outer englobement pattern.

    The Wizard Of Karres Lackey, Mercedes 2004

  • They were basic enough tactics: to prevent englobement, pick a hole in the globe and escape.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

  • When a deliberate concentration of forces in one place was met by an energetic and equivalent Pitarian response, the battle planners went to the opposite extreme by suggesting an attempted englobement of one of the Twin Worlds.

    Dirge Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

  • It was a standard enough englobement, the movement designed to take an enemy swiftly by surprise and overload his weapons computers before he had a chance to respond.

    INTELLIVORE DIANE DUANE 2000

  • They were basic enough tactics: to prevent englobement, pick a hole in the globe and escape.

    RIHANNSU #3: SWORDHUNT Diane Duane 2000

  • They were basic enough tactics: to prevent englobement, pick a hole in the globe and escape.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

  • They were basic enough tactics: to prevent englobement, pick a hole in the globe and escape.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

  • They were basic enough tactics: to prevent englobement, pick a hole in the globe and escape.

    RIHANNSU #3: SWORDHUNT Diane Duane 2000

  • They were basic enough tactics: to prevent englobement, pick a hole in the globe and escape.

    RIHANNSU #3: SWORDHUNT Diane Duane 2000

  • The mere fact that englobement was their strategy told him 8omething.

    Step into Chaos Shatner, William 1999

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