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envelope
(encz) | envelope,obálka |
envelope
(encz) | envelope,schránka |
Envelope
(gcide) | Envelope \En"vel*ope\ (?; 277), Envelop \En*vel"op\ (?; 277), n.
[F. enveloppe.]
1. That which envelops, wraps up, encases, or surrounds; a
wrapper; an inclosing cover; esp., the cover or wrapper of
a document, as of a letter.
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2. (Astron.) The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of
a comet; -- called also coma.
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3. (Fort.) A work of earth, in the form of a single parapet
or of a small rampart. It is sometimes raised in the ditch
and sometimes beyond it. --Wilhelm.
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4. (Geom.) A curve or surface which is tangent to each member
of a system of curves or surfaces, the form and position
of the members of the system being allowed to vary
according to some continuous law. Thus, any curve is the
envelope of its tangents.
4. A set of limits for the performance capabilities of some
type of machine, originally used to refer to aircraft; --
it is often described graphically as a two-dimensional
graph of a function showing the maximum of one performance
variable as a function of another. Now it is also used
metaphorically to refer to capabilities of any system in
general, including human organizations, esp. in the phrase
push the envelope. It is used to refer to the maximum
performance available at the current state of the
technology, and therefore refers to a class of machines in
general, not a specific machine.
[PJC]
push the envelope to increase the capability of some type
of machine or system; -- usually by technological
development.
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envelope
(wn) | envelope
n 1: a flat (usually rectangular) container for a letter, thin
package, etc.
2: any wrapper or covering
3: a curve that is tangent to each of a family of curves
4: a natural covering (as by a fluid); "the spacecraft detected
an envelope of gas around the comet"
5: the maximum operating capability of a system (especially an
aircraft); "test pilots try to push the envelope"
6: the bag containing the gas in a balloon [syn: envelope,
gasbag] |
envelope
(devil) | ENVELOPE, n. The coffin of a document; the scabbard of a bill; the
husk of a remittance; the bed-gown of a love-letter.
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envelope
(encz) | envelope,obálka envelope,schránka |
enveloped
(encz) | enveloped, adj: |
enveloper
(encz) | enveloper, |
envelopes
(encz) | envelopes,obálky n: pl. Zdeněk Broženvelopes,schránky |
floral envelope
(encz) | floral envelope, n: |
pay envelope
(encz) | pay envelope, n: |
push the envelope
(encz) | push the envelope, |
stretch the envelope
(encz) | stretch the envelope, |
window envelope
(encz) | window envelope, n: |
back of the envelope
(czen) | Back Of The Envelope,BOTE[zkr.] |
back of the envelope calculation
(czen) | Back Of The Envelope Calculation,BOTEC[zkr.] |
enveloped
(gcide) | enclosed \enclosed\ adj.
surrounded or closed in, usually on all sides. Opposite of
unenclosed. [Narrower terms: basined; {capsulate,
capsulated}; closed, closed in(predicate); coarctate;
confined, fenced in, penned; embedded, fixed; {embedded,
surrounded}; encircled; enveloped; fogbound;
self-enclosed; surrounded, encircled]
[WordNet 1.5]enveloped \enveloped\ adj.
enclosed or surrounded completely; as, the fog-enveloped
city.
[WordNet 1.5]Envelop \En*vel"op\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enveloped; p. pr. &
vb. n. Enveloping.] [OE. envolupen, envolipen, OF.
envoluper, envoleper, F. envelopper; pref. en- (L. in) +
voluper, voleper. See Develop.]
To put a covering about; to wrap up or in; to inclose within
a case, wrapper, integument or the like; to surround
entirely; as, to envelop goods or a letter; the fog envelops
a ship.
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Nocturnal shades this world envelop. --J. Philips.
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Enveloped
(gcide) | enclosed \enclosed\ adj.
surrounded or closed in, usually on all sides. Opposite of
unenclosed. [Narrower terms: basined; {capsulate,
capsulated}; closed, closed in(predicate); coarctate;
confined, fenced in, penned; embedded, fixed; {embedded,
surrounded}; encircled; enveloped; fogbound;
self-enclosed; surrounded, encircled]
[WordNet 1.5]enveloped \enveloped\ adj.
enclosed or surrounded completely; as, the fog-enveloped
city.
[WordNet 1.5]Envelop \En*vel"op\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enveloped; p. pr. &
vb. n. Enveloping.] [OE. envolupen, envolipen, OF.
envoluper, envoleper, F. envelopper; pref. en- (L. in) +
voluper, voleper. See Develop.]
To put a covering about; to wrap up or in; to inclose within
a case, wrapper, integument or the like; to surround
entirely; as, to envelop goods or a letter; the fog envelops
a ship.
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Nocturnal shades this world envelop. --J. Philips.
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Floral envelope
(gcide) | Floral \Flo"ral\, a. [L. Floralis belonging to Flora: cf. F.
floral. See Flora.]
1. Pertaining to Flora, or to flowers; made of flowers; as,
floral games, wreaths.
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2. (Bot.) Containing, or belonging to, a flower; as, a floral
bud; a floral leaf; floral characters. --Martyn.
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Floral envelope (Bot.), the calyx and corolla, one or the
other of which (mostly the corolla) may be wanting.
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Letter-sheet envelope
(gcide) | Letter \Let"ter\, n. [OE. lettre, F. lettre, OF. letre, fr. L.
littera, litera, a letter; pl., an epistle, a writing,
literature, fr. linere, litum, to besmear, to spread or rub
over; because one of the earliest modes of writing was by
graving the characters upon tablets smeared over or covered
with wax. --Pliny, xiii. 11. See Liniment, and cf.
Literal.]
1. A mark or character used as the representative of a sound,
or of an articulation of the human organs of speech; a
first element of written language.
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And a superscription also was written over him in
letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew. --Luke
xxiii. 38.
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2. A written or printed communication; a message expressed in
intelligible characters on something adapted to
conveyance, as paper, parchment, etc.; an epistle.
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The style of letters ought to be free, easy, and
natural. --Walsh.
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3. A writing; an inscription. [Obs.]
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None could expound what this letter meant.
--Chaucer.
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4. Verbal expression; literal statement or meaning; exact
signification or requirement.
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We must observe the letter of the law, without doing
violence to the reason of the law and the intention
of the lawgiver. --Jer. Taylor.
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I broke the letter of it to keep the sense.
--Tennyson.
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5. (Print.) A single type; type, collectively; a style of
type.
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Under these buildings . . . was the king's printing
house, and that famous letter so much esteemed.
--Evelyn.
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6. pl. Learning; erudition; as, a man of letters.
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7. pl. A letter; an epistle. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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8. (Teleg.) A telegram longer than an ordinary message sent
at rates lower than the standard message rate in
consideration of its being sent and delivered subject to
priority in service of regular messages. Such telegrams
are called by the Western Union Company day letters, or
night letters according to the time of sending, and by
The Postal Telegraph Company day lettergrams, or {night
lettergrams}.
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Dead letter, Drop letter, etc. See under Dead, Drop,
etc.
Letter book, a book in which copies of letters are kept.
Letter box, a box for the reception of letters to be mailed
or delivered.
Letter carrier, a person who carries letters; a postman;
specif., an officer of the post office who carries letters
to the persons to whom they are addressed, and collects
letters to be mailed.
Letter cutter, one who engraves letters or letter punches.
Letter lock, a lock that can not be opened when fastened,
unless certain movable lettered rings or disks forming a
part of it are in such a position (indicated by a
particular combination of the letters) as to permit the
bolt to be withdrawn.
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A strange lock that opens with AMEN. --Beau. & Fl.
Letter paper, paper for writing letters on; especially, a
size of paper intermediate between note paper and
foolscap. See Paper.
Letter punch, a steel punch with a letter engraved on the
end, used in making the matrices for type.
Letters of administration (Law), the instrument by which an
administrator or administratrix is authorized to
administer the goods and estate of a deceased person.
Letter of attorney, Letter of credit, etc. See under
Attorney, Credit, etc.
Letter of license, a paper by which creditors extend a
debtor's time for paying his debts.
Letters close or Letters clause (Eng. Law.), letters or
writs directed to particular persons for particular
purposes, and hence closed or sealed on the outside; --
distinguished from letters patent. --Burrill.
Letters of orders (Eccl.), a document duly signed and
sealed, by which a bishop makes it known that he has
regularly ordained a certain person as priest, deacon,
etc.
Letters patent, Letters overt, or Letters open (Eng.
Law), a writing executed and sealed, by which power and
authority are granted to a person to do some act, or enjoy
some right; as, letters patent under the seal of England.
The common commercial patent is a derivative form of
such a right.
Letter-sheet envelope, a stamped sheet of letter paper
issued by the government, prepared to be folded and sealed
for transmission by mail without an envelope.
Letters testamentary (Law), an instrument granted by the
proper officer to an executor after probate of a will,
authorizing him to act as executor.
Letter writer.
(a) One who writes letters.
(b) A machine for copying letters.
(c) A book giving directions and forms for the writing of
letters.
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push the envelope
(gcide) | Envelope \En"vel*ope\ (?; 277), Envelop \En*vel"op\ (?; 277), n.
[F. enveloppe.]
1. That which envelops, wraps up, encases, or surrounds; a
wrapper; an inclosing cover; esp., the cover or wrapper of
a document, as of a letter.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Astron.) The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of
a comet; -- called also coma.
[1913 Webster]
3. (Fort.) A work of earth, in the form of a single parapet
or of a small rampart. It is sometimes raised in the ditch
and sometimes beyond it. --Wilhelm.
[1913 Webster]
4. (Geom.) A curve or surface which is tangent to each member
of a system of curves or surfaces, the form and position
of the members of the system being allowed to vary
according to some continuous law. Thus, any curve is the
envelope of its tangents.
4. A set of limits for the performance capabilities of some
type of machine, originally used to refer to aircraft; --
it is often described graphically as a two-dimensional
graph of a function showing the maximum of one performance
variable as a function of another. Now it is also used
metaphorically to refer to capabilities of any system in
general, including human organizations, esp. in the phrase
push the envelope. It is used to refer to the maximum
performance available at the current state of the
technology, and therefore refers to a class of machines in
general, not a specific machine.
[PJC]
push the envelope to increase the capability of some type
of machine or system; -- usually by technological
development.
[1913 Webster] |
envelope
(wn) | envelope
n 1: a flat (usually rectangular) container for a letter, thin
package, etc.
2: any wrapper or covering
3: a curve that is tangent to each of a family of curves
4: a natural covering (as by a fluid); "the spacecraft detected
an envelope of gas around the comet"
5: the maximum operating capability of a system (especially an
aircraft); "test pilots try to push the envelope"
6: the bag containing the gas in a balloon [syn: envelope,
gasbag] |
floral envelope
(wn) | floral envelope
n 1: collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting
of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and
pistils [syn: perianth, chlamys, floral envelope,
perigone, perigonium] |
pay envelope
(wn) | pay envelope
n 1: wages enclosed in an envelope for distribution to the wage
earner [syn: pay envelope, pay packet] |
window envelope
(wn) | window envelope
n 1: an envelope with a transparent panel that reveals the
address on the enclosure |
digital envelope
(foldoc) | digital envelope
(http://rsa.com/rsalabs/faq/html/2-2-4.html).
[Summary?]
(1999-03-16)
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peak envelope power
(foldoc) | peak envelope power
PEP
(PEP) The maximum power output by a radio
transmitter over one complete RF cycle at any modulation.
(2008-02-11)
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envelope
(devil) | ENVELOPE, n. The coffin of a document; the scabbard of a bill; the
husk of a remittance; the bed-gown of a love-letter.
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