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Encasement

noun
1.
The act of enclosing something in a case.  Synonym: incasement.






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"Encasement" Quotes from Famous Books



... they just sat around in the big locker room, trying to get used to being enclosed like this, much of the time, checking to see that everything was functioning right, listening to the muffled voices that still reached them from beyond their protecting encasement. They could still have conversed, by direct sound or by helmet-radio, but the devil-killer seemed to subdue the impulse, and for a while caused a dreaminess that ...
— The Planet Strappers • Raymond Zinke Gallun

... made of marble or slate, with a round bowl of crockery. The bowl was 14 inches in diameter originally, but later was changed to an oval bowl. Like the bath tub these wash stands were encased in wood, the encasing being used to support the marble top. Ornamental brackets were introduced and the wood encasement done ...
— Elements of Plumbing • Samuel Dibble



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