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Enclave
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- 1 A political, cultural or social entity or part thereof that is completely surrounded by another.
"The Republic of San Marino is an enclave of Italy."
- 2 an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the foreign territory that surrounds it wordnet
- 3 A group that is set off from a larger population by its characteristic or behavior.
"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"."
- 4 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.
"When an enclave spans a system boundary in a sysplex, it is called a multisystem enclave."
- 1 To enclose within a foreign territory. transitive
Etymology
Borrowed from French enclave, from Middle French enclave (“enclave”), deverbal of enclaver (“to inclose”), from Old French enclaver (“to inclose, lock in”), from Vulgar Latin *inclāvāre (“to lock in”), from in + Latin clavis (“key”) or clavus (“nail, bolt”). Compare inlock.
Borrowed from French enclave, from Middle French enclave (“enclave”), deverbal of enclaver (“to inclose”), from Old French enclaver (“to inclose, lock in”), from Vulgar Latin *inclāvāre (“to lock in”), from in + Latin clavis (“key”) or clavus (“nail, bolt”). Compare inlock.
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