#enveloping
- Bitumen-coated — Having undergone the process of anrobare; a mineral aggregate, stone chipping, or rocky material that has been uniformly wrapped and covered with a thin film of bitumen, emulsion, or hydrocarbon binder. In a technical sense, it describes the state of the components of an asphalt mixture ready to be laid and compacted on the roadway to form impermeable and resistant road layers.
- Enveloping — Surrounding, wrapping, covering, or completely insulating a structure, body, or assembly of elements; in mathematics and physics, it describes a curve, surface, or function (envelope) that is tangent to an entire family of other curves or related shapes, defining their maximum outer perimeter.
- Structural enveloping — The act of enveloping and its result; the technical and constructive process of wrapping, covering, or externally insulating a structure; in construction, it refers specifically to the thermal insulation of a building's facades, roofs, and windows to optimize energy consumption.