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The correct spelling is envelope.
How to pronounce envelope
/ˈɒn.və.ləʊp/
nounIPA: /ˈɒn.və.ləʊp/
Say it like: Env-elo-pe
The correct spelling is envelope. A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.
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Meanings
noun
- 1.A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.
- 2.Something that envelops; a wrapping.
- 3.A bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship; fabric that encloses the gas-bags of an airship.
- 4.A mathematical curve, surface, or higher-dimensional object that is the tangent to a given family of lines, curves, surfaces, or higher-dimensional objects.
- 5.A curve that bounds another curve or set of curves, as the modulation envelope of an amplitude-modulated carrier wave in electronics.
verb
- 1.To surround or enclose.
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