broadside vs envelope

broadside

noun
  • A large sheet of paper, printed on one side and folded. 

  • The printed lyrics of a folk song or ballad; a broadsheet. 

  • A forceful attack, be it written or spoken. 

  • One side of a ship above the water line; all the guns on one side of a warship; their simultaneous firing. 

verb
  • To collide with something side-on. 

adv
  • Sideways; with the side turned to the direction of some object. 

envelope

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

  • Something that envelops; a wrapping. 

  • An enclosing structure or cover, such as a membrane; a space between two membranes 

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

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

  • The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; a coma. 

  • The set of limitations within which a technological system can perform safely and effectively. 

  • The shape of a sound, which may be controlled by a synthesizer or sampler. 

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

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

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

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