Englobement

The fancy ship detectors they'd had fitted on Uldune were registering a second layer of ships-an outer englobement pattern. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2004)

They were basic enough tactics: to prevent englobement, pick a hole in the globe and escape. ❋ Diane Duane (2000)

When a deliberate concentration of forces in one place was met by an energetic and equivalent Pitarian response, the battle planners went to the opposite extreme by suggesting an attempted englobement of one of the Twin Worlds. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (2000)

It was a standard enough englobement, the movement designed to take an enemy swiftly by surprise and overload his weapons computers before he had a chance to respond. ❋ DIANE DUANE (2000)

The mere fact that englobement was their strategy told him 8omething. ❋ Shatner, William (1999)

Fight through the englobement, leave the attackers behind, and escape Terran space entirely. ❋ Shatner, William (1999)

The ovoid passed quickly through its orbit and out an opening on the far side of the englobement. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1997)

Three of them arced out at the vertices of a triangle to begin a standard englobement. ❋ DIANE DUANE (1983)

This was englobement, in which a dozen or more vessels surrounded the proposed victim in space and held it motionless at the center of a sphere by means of pressors, which could not be cut or evaded. ❋ Smith, E. E. (1950)

Reforming, the Solar Guard ships encircled the enemy in a deadly englobement pattern, and wheeling in great co-ordinated arcs through space, sent combined volleys of torpedoes crashing into the enemy ships. ❋ Carey Rockwell (N/A)

And while attempting this englobement they so massed their forces as to drive the Lensman's vessel as far as possible away from the grim and tremendously powerful fortifications of Prime Base, almost directly below them. ❋ Smith, E. E. (1950)

And Kinnison was not-surprised; before full englobement was accomplished, a loud-speaker gave tongue. ❋ Smith, E. E. (1950)