Enclave

Quick meaning: Enclave is a noun meaning A political, cultural or social entity or part thereof that is completely surrounded by another.

Meaning

A political, cultural or social entity or part thereof that is completely surrounded by another.

More Meanings

1. A group that is set off from a larger population by its characteristic or behavior.
2. (transitive) To enclose within a foreign territory.
3. (computing) An isolated portion of an application's address space, such that data in an enclave can only be accessed by code in the same enclave.

Example Sentences

The Republic of San Marino is an enclave of Italy.

When an enclave spans a system boundary in a sysplex, it is called a multisystem enclave.

The streets around Union Square form a Protestant enclave within an otherwise Catholic neighbourhood.

They were learning to do what in all my years in the music business I never saw — which was women running a record company, women producing concerts, women learning to be engineers, women moving into this absolutely all-male enclave. You never saw a woman in any of those positions, in any of that work except as secretaries and "go-fers".

Word Forms

• enclaves
• enclaving
• enclaved

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