encompassment

Noun

encompassment (countable and uncountable, plural encompassments)

1. The act of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded.
   • By this encompassment and drift of question.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
   • Interphalangeal extension is lost and no effective phalangeal grasp (encompassment) is possible.1987, William H. Bowers, The Interphalangeal Joints, page 15
2. Complete inclusion, with no outliers.
   • The new encompassment standard to be applied to cases involving commonly owned stations in different broadcast services is less restrictive than the standard used for such stations under the interim policy. For example, under the interim policy if the 1-mv./m. contour of an FM station licensed to...1971, United States. Federal Communications Commission, Federal Communications Commission Reports, page 315
   • In each trial, one person in the room was designated not to sing unless every one of the others in the room had made a payment sufficient so as to have that person sing. Our evidence of a demand for encompassment is threefold: Subjects chose to sacrifice money to achieve encompassment 47.4 percent...2014, Daniel B. Klein, A Demand for Encompassment
3. A hierarchical structure such that when two elements of a whole are recognized as opposites, one of them is considered hierarchically superior, while the other is subordinated to the whole.
   • It sometimes seems as though the anthropological nostalgia for Culture and the academic imperative to defend our space by defending our concept blinds us to the reality that the processes of encompassment neither leave others alone nor make them Western. Rather, encompassment creates a new terrain...2001, Edward LiPuma, Encompassing Others: The Magic of Modernity in Melanesia
   • This appears then as a moment of encompassment. The work of the technologist is encompassed by the artist, or the contribution of the facilitator is claimed as part of the creative process (genius, fortune) of the artist themselves.2007, Amiria Henare, Martin Holbraad, Sari Wastell, Thinking Through Things