enclosing

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of enclose

noun

1. That which encloses.

   “And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. […] And they set in it four rows of stones: […] the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were enclosed in ouches of gold in their enclosings.”

2. The act or situation by which something is enclosed.

   “Duane Duck is a play of boxes, explicit and implicit, frangible or firm; indeed, Duane Duck is a play about boxes, a performance of all manner of relations to enclosings.”

adj

1. (not-comparable)Of a region, containing all points of a given set within its bounds.