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      envelope
      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.
      (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.
      (networking) 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.
      (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.
      verb
      Archaic form of envelop. [(transitive) To surround, enclose or enfold.]
      (transitive, rare) To put (something) in an envelope.
      Roots
      inen- · French · involopervelope- · French · to wrap, enfold
      Synonyms for envelope
      wrappernwrappingnbindern
      Words related to envelope
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      The word envelope breaks down into 2 roots of French origin: en-, from French in (“in”); and velope, from French voloper (“to wrap, enfold”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.

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