Envelope vs. Nebulous

Envelope vs. Nebulous — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Envelope and Nebulous

Envelopenoun

A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.

Nebulousadjective

In the form of a cloud or haze; hazy.

Envelopenoun

Something that envelops; a wrapping.

Nebulousadjective

Vague or ill-defined.

Envelopenoun

A bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship; fabric that encloses the gas-bags of an airship.

Nebulousadjective

Relating to a nebula or nebulae.

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Envelopenoun

(geometry) A mathematical curve, surface, or higher-dimensional object that is the tangent to a given family of lines, curves, surfaces, or higher-dimensional objects.

Nebulousadjective

lacking definite form or limits;

gropes among cloudy issues toward a feeble conclusionnebulous distinction between pride and conceit

Envelopenoun

(electronics) A curve that bounds another curve or set of curves, as the modulation envelope of an amplitude-modulated carrier wave in electronics.

Nebulousadjective

lacking definition or definite content;

nebulous reasonsunfixed as were her general notions of what men ought to be

Envelopenoun

(music) The shape of a sound, which may be controlled by a synthesizer or sampler.

Envelopenoun

(computing) The information used for routing a message that is transmitted with the message but not part of its contents.

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Envelopenoun

(biology) An enclosing structure or cover, such as a membrane; a space between two membranes

Envelopenoun

(engineering) The set of limitations within which a technological system can perform safely and effectively.

Envelopenoun

(astronomy) The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; a coma.

Envelopenoun

An earthwork in the form of a single parapet or a small rampart, sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.

Envelopeverb

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Envelopenoun

a flat rectangular paper container for papers

Envelopenoun

any wrapper or covering

Envelopenoun

a curve that is tangent to each of a family of curves

Envelopenoun

a natural covering (as by a fluid);

the spacecraft detected an envelope of gas around the comet

Envelopenoun

the maximum operating capability of a system;

test pilots try to push the envelope

Envelopenoun

the bag containing the gas in a balloon