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Bounding vs Encircling - What's the difference?

bounding | encircling |

As verbs the difference between bounding and encircling

is that bounding is while encircling is .

As nouns the difference between bounding and encircling

is that bounding is (uncountable) the use of fire protection products within limits determined by scientific tests while encircling is encirclement.

As an adjective encircling is

enclosing, skirting.

bounding

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

  • (uncountable) The use of fire protection products within limits determined by scientific tests.
  • A boundary.
  • * Bishop Beveridge
    • Without buttings or boundings on any side.

    References

    * NRC SECY-00-0080: "bounding fire tests for the myriad of fire seal configurations"

    encircling

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • enclosing, skirting
    • She felt safe in her mother's encircling arms.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • encirclement
  • * 1995 , Frank Trommler, Thematics Reconsidered: Essays in Honor of Horst S. Daemmrich
    • If, however, a series of motifs conjoin in their encirclings of a theme - within and beyond the "subtext" - they enliven the interplay among themselves and with the theme to which they are attracted over the turbulent abyss of time and space.