enclosing

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of enclose

plural enclosings

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.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 39:10-13

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.

   1995, Frederick Garber, Repositionings, page 131

1. not comparablegeometryOf a region, containing all points of a given set within its bounds.

   Synonyms: bounding