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envelope

English

  1. 🔊 any wrapper or covering
  2. 🔊 a flat (usually rectangular) container for a letter, thin package, etc.
  3. 🔊 the bag containing the gas in a balloon
  4. 🔊 the maximum operating capability of a system (especially an aircraft)
    “test pilots try to push the envelope”
  5. 🔊 a natural covering (as by a fluid)
    “the spacecraft detected an envelope of gas around the comet”
  6. 🔊 a curve that is tangent to each of a family of curves

Spanish

  1. 🔊 envoltura envelope
  2. 🔊 sobre envelope

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