Usually means: Covering or housing for protection.
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  1. encasement: Merriam-Webster
  2. encasement: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. encasement: Collins English Dictionary
  4. encasement: Vocabulary.com
  5. encasement: Wordnik
  6. encasement: Wiktionary
  7. encasement: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Encasement, encasement: Dictionary.com
  9. Encasement: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Encasement: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. encasement: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. encasement: Rhymezone
  13. Encasement: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. encasement: FreeDictionary.org
  15. encasement: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Encasement: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. encasement: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (encasement)

▸ noun:  The act of encasing.
▸ noun:  Something that encases.
▸ noun:  (genetics) The early genetic theory of emboîtement.

Similar:
incasement, encaser, ensconcement, enclosing, encasing, casing, enclosure, embracement, inclosure, ensheathment, more...

Opposite:
exposure, uncovering, unveiling, unmasking

Adjectives:
concrete, vascular, bony, arterial, tumor, complete, physical, protective, fibrous, rigid, plastic



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Similar:
incasement, encaser, ensconcement, enclosing, encasing, casing, enclosure, embracement, inclosure, ensheathment, more...

Opposite:
exposure, uncovering, unveiling, unmasking

Adjectives:
concrete, vascular, bony, arterial, tumor, complete, physical, protective, fibrous, rigid, plastic



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