Definition of "envelopment" [en•vel•op•ment]

• The act of enveloping (noun)
• An offensive action in which an attacking force moves over or around the enemy and attacks from the rear; see also pincer movement (noun)
• An action to seize the opponent's blade in one line and lead it (without losing contact) through a full circle to end in the same line (noun)

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• "Allied to values is the idea of envelopment: of a kindred notion to this is aerial perspective."
• "Writing of pre-WWI Germany, Allyson Booth, a professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy, notes: "While the Kaiser worried about 'encirclement,' his chief strategists organized the German army for a project of 'envelopment'.""
• "Things are in such a kind of envelopment that they have seemed to philosophers, not a few nor those common philosophers, altogether unintelligible; nay even to the Stoics themselves they seem difficult to understand."