Enclosure (disambiguation)
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Enclosure
Enclosure
Enclosure or inclosure is the process which ends traditional rights such as mowing meadows for hay, or grazing livestock on common land. Once enclosed, these uses of the land become restricted to the owner, and it ceases to be common land. In England and Wales the term is also used for the...

is the process of converting common land into private land.

Enclosure or enclosed may also refer to:
  • Enclosure, in agriculture, an area of land used for growing crops or keeping livestock: see field
    Field (agriculture)
    In agriculture, the word field refers generally to an area of land enclosed or otherwise and used for agricultural purposes such as:* Cultivating crops* Usage as a paddock or, generally, an enclosure of livestock...

  • Enclosure (archaeology)
    Enclosure (archaeology)
    In archaeology, an enclosure is one of the most common types of archaeological site. It is any area of land separated from surrounding land by earthworks, walls or fencing. Such a simple feature is found all over the world and during almost all archaeological periods...

    , an area of land separated from surrounding land by earthworks, walls, or fencing
  • Enclosure, a document or item accompanying a letter
  • Enclosed alphanumeric
    Enclosed alphanumeric
    An enclosed alphanumeric or circled alphanumeric is a typographical symbol of an alphanumeric within a circle. The meaning of "enclosed" may also be extended to "bracketed", like in ⒣, and other not-closed enclosures....

    , in linguistics
  • Enclosed country, landlocked country
  • Enclosed oppidum
    Enclosed oppidum
    An enclosed oppidum was a type of large, late Iron Age settlement, or oppidum surrounded by an encircling bank and ditch.They differ from hillforts through being not necessarily sited on high ground and through being permanent settlements with a strong economic function.As well as re-occupying...

  • Enclosed religious orders, religious orders separated from the external world
  • Enclosed rhyme
    Enclosed rhyme
    Enclosed rhyme is the rhyme scheme "abba"...

  • Enclosed embryo, seed
    Seed
    A seed is a small embryonic plant enclosed in a covering called the seed coat, usually with some stored food. It is the product of the ripened ovule of gymnosperm and angiosperm plants which occurs after fertilization and some growth within the mother plant...

  • The Enclosure
    The Enclosure
    The Enclosure is a novel by Susan Hill. Hill wrote the novel when she was 15-years old....

    , a 1961 novel by Susan Hill

Technology

  • Any kind of container can be considered an enclosure
  • Enclosure (electrical)
    Enclosure (electrical)
    An electrical enclosure is a cabinet for electrical or electronic equipment to mount switches, knobs and displays and to prevent electrical shock to equipment users and protect the contents from the environment...

    , a cabinet for electrical or electronic equipment
    • Card enclosure
      Card enclosure
      A card enclosure is a container for smart cards, credit cards, debit cards, telephone cards, visiting cards, business cards and other cards of similar size. Most cards have dimensions that follow the ID-1 format of the ISO/IEC 7810 standard which specify the physical dimensions for cards to be...

      , a container for smart cards
    • Loudspeaker enclosure
      Loudspeaker enclosure
      A loudspeaker enclosure is a purpose-engineered cabinet in which speaker drivers and associated electronic hardware, such as crossover circuits and amplifiers, are mounted...

      , the box containing a loudspeaker system
    • Disk enclosure
      Disk enclosure
      A disk enclosure is essentially a specialized chassis designed to hold and power disk drives while providing a mechanism to allow them to communicate to one or more separate computers. Drive enclosures provide power to the drives therein and convert the data sent across their native data bus into a...

      , a specialized chassis designed to hold and power disk drives
  • RSS enclosure
    RSS enclosure
    RSS enclosures are a way of attaching multimedia content to RSS feeds by providing the URL of a file associated with an entry, such as an MP3 file to a music recommendation or a photo to a diary entry. Unlike e-mail attachments, enclosures are merely hyperlinks to files, the actual file data is not...

    , a pointer to a media file from a web feed
  • Enclosed heating space, stove
    Stove
    A stove is an enclosed heated space. The term is commonly taken to mean an enclosed space in which fuel is burned to provide heating, either to heat the space in which the stove is situated or to heat the stove itself, and items placed on it...

  • Enclosed roller coaster
    Enclosed roller coaster
    An enclosed roller coaster is a roller coaster built inside a structure intended solely for the ride. This structure often imparts a theme or houses special effects...


Buildings and structures

  • Any building
    Building
    In architecture, construction, engineering, real estate development and technology the word building may refer to one of the following:...

     can be considered an enclosure or enclosed space
  • Enclosed cremation cemetery
    Enclosed cremation cemetery
    Enclosed cremation cemetery is a term used by archaeologists to describe a type of cemetery found in north western Europe during the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age. They are similar to urnfield burial grounds in that they consist of a concentration of pits containing cremains which have...

  • Enclosed sporting area, arena
    Arena
    An arena is an enclosed area, often circular or oval-shaped, designed to showcase theater, musical performances, or sporting events. It is composed of a large open space surrounded on most or all sides by tiered seating for spectators. The key feature of an arena is that the event space is the...

  • Enclosed bridge, covered bridge
  • Enclosed mall
  • House
    House
    A house is a building or structure that has the ability to be occupied for dwelling by human beings or other creatures. The term house includes many kinds of different dwellings ranging from rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes to free standing individual structures...


Music

  • "Enclosure", a song from the album Metal Gear Solid Original Game Soundtrack
    Metal Gear Solid Original Game Soundtrack
    The Metal Gear Solid Original Game Soundtrack is the official soundtrack to Konami's 1998 stealth game Metal Gear Solid. Most of the original music was composed and performed by the Konami Computer Entertainment Sound Team Japan , with the exception of the "Metal Gear Solid Main...

  • Enclosure, in jazz compositions, a technique of approaching a note with notes a step above and below, similar to a cambiata
    Cambiata
    Cambiata, or nota cambiata , has a number of different and related meanings. Generally it refers to a pattern in a homophonic or polyphonic setting where a note is skipped from in one direction and this is followed by motion in the opposite direction, and where either the note skipped from is...

  • Enclosure (album), a 1987 album by the Japanese noise musician Merzbow

See also

  • Close (disambiguation)
  • Container (disambiguation)
  • Cover (disambiguation)
  • Wrap (disambiguation)
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