encirclement

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From encircle + -ment.

Before us stretched a large space enclosed by four encirclements of barbed wire containing the tents and houses which formed the temporary homes of the prisoners-of-war. — My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War, Ben J. (Ben Johannis) Viljoen
Haines and Ferrati used the two-man rocket plane and would make a wide encirclement of the vicinity, mapping and finally blowing up the accumulator discs floating on the surface. — The Secret of the Ninth Planet, Donald A. Wollheim
Later on the attempt is made to exhibit the god as real and to display the visionary figure together with its glorifying encirclement before the eyes of all; it is here that the "drama" in the narrow sense of the term begins. — The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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