Definitions for enclosure
ɛnˈkloʊ ʒəren·clo·sure

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.8 / 4 votes

1. enclosurenoun

   a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose

2. enclosure, enclosing, envelopment, inclosurenoun

   the act of enclosing something inside something else

3. enclosure, natural enclosurenoun

   a naturally enclosed space

4. enclosure, inclosurenoun

   something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.3 / 3 votes

1. enclosurenoun

   Something enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.

   There was an enclosure with the letter a photo.

2. enclosurenoun

   The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package.

   There was an enclosure with the letter a photo.

3. enclosurenoun

   An area, domain, or amount of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers.

4. enclosurenoun

   The act of separating and surrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier.

5. enclosurenoun

   The post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership.

   Strip-farming disappeared after enclosure.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Enclosurenoun

   Etymology: from enclose.

   1. The act of enclosing or environing any thing.

   The membranes are for the comprehension or enclosure of all these together. John Wilkins, Math. Magick.

   2. The separation of common grounds into distinct possessions.

   Enclosures began to be frequent, whereby arable land was turned into pasture. Francis Bacon, Henry VII.

   Touching enclosures, I am not ignorant what a profitable purchase is made thereby, because a company of lands inclosed are thereby improved in worth two or three parts at the least. John Hayward.

   3. The appropriation of things common.

   Let no man appropriate what God hath made common; that is against justice and charity, and by miraculous accidents God hath declared his displeasure against such enclosure. Taylor.

   4. State of being shut up in any place; encompassed, or environed.

   This expresses particularly the enclosure of the waters within the earth. Thomas Burnet, Theory of the Earth.

   For the young, during its enclosure in the womb, there are formed membranes inveloping it, called secundines. John Ray.

   5. The space enclosed; the space comprehended within certain limits.

   And all, that else this world’s enclosure base
   Hath great or glorious in mortal eye,
   Adorns the person of her majesty. Fairy Queen, b. ii. can. 2.

   They are to live all in a body, and generally within the same enclosure; to marry among themselves, and to eat no meats that are not prepared their own way. Joseph Addison, Spectator.

   6. Several; ground enclosed; ground separated from the common.

   ’Tis not the common, but the enclosure must make him rich. Robert South, Sermons.

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1. Enclosure

   Enclosure (sometimes inclosure) was the legal process in England of consolidating (enclosing) small landholdings into larger farms since the 13th century. Once enclosed, use of the land became restricted and available only to the owner, and it ceased to be common land for communal use. In England and Wales the term is also used for the process that ended the ancient system of arable farming in open fields. Under enclosure, such land is fenced (enclosed) and deeded or entitled to one or more owners. The process of enclosure began to be a widespread feature of the English agricultural landscape during the 16th century. By the 19th century, unenclosed commons had become largely restricted to rough pasture in mountainous areas and to relatively small parts of the lowlands. Enclosure could be accomplished by buying the ground rights and all common rights to accomplish exclusive rights of use, which increased the value of the land. The other method was by passing laws causing or forcing enclosure, such as Parliamentary enclosure involving an Inclosure Act. The latter process of enclosure was sometimes accompanied by force, resistance, and bloodshed, and remains among the most controversial areas of agricultural and economic history in England. Marxist historians argue that rich landowners used their control of state processes to appropriate public land for their private benefit. During the Georgian era, the process of enclosure created a landless working class that provided the labour required in the new industries developing in the north of England. For example: "In agriculture the years between 1760 and 1820 are the years of wholesale enclosure in which, in village after village, common rights are lost". E. P. Thompson argues that "Enclosure (when all the sophistications are allowed for) was a plain enough case of class robbery."W. A. Armstrong, among others, argued that this is perhaps an oversimplification, that the better-off members of the European peasantry encouraged and participated actively in enclosure, seeking to end the perpetual poverty of subsistence farming. "We should be careful not to ascribe to [enclosure] developments that were the consequence of a much broader and more complex process of historical change." Armstrong notes that enclosure had varying impacts on levels of poor relief in western and eastern counties, and suggests the decrease in agricultural wages in this period (and subsequent emigration to urban areas) was more related to overall rural population growth instead.Enclosure is considered one of the causes of the British Agricultural Revolution. Enclosed land was under control of the farmer who was free to adopt better farming practices. There was widespread agreement in contemporary accounts that profit making opportunities were better with enclosed land. Following enclosure, crop yields increased while at the same time labour productivity increased enough to create a surplus of labour. The increased labour supply is considered one of the causes of the Industrial Revolution. Karl Marx argued in Capital that enclosure played a constitutive role in the revolutionary transformation of feudalism into capitalism, both by transforming land from a means of subsistence into a means to realize profit on commodity markets (primarily wool in the English case), and by creating the conditions for the modern labour market by transforming small peasant proprietors and serfs into agricultural wage-labourers, whose opportunities to exit the market declined as the common lands were enclosed.

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1. enclosure

   An enclosure is a structure or space that is designed to contain or hold something or someone within its boundaries or limits. This could refer to a variety of physical areas from a simple fence or box, to complex structures like a building, garden, park, or a reserved natural habitat. It is typically used to isolate, protect or separate what's inside from external elements or influences. In the digital context, it can mean a protective casing for electronics or a specific sector set aside within a system.

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1. Enclosurenoun

   inclosure. See Inclosure

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1. Enclosure

   In English social and economic history, enclosure or inclosure is the process which ends traditional rights such as mowing meadows for hay, or grazing livestock on common land formerly held in the open field system. Once enclosed, these uses of the land become restricted to the owner, and it ceases to be land for commons. In England and Wales the term is also used for the process that ended the ancient system of arable farming in open fields. Under enclosure, such land is fenced and deeded or entitled to one or more owners. The process of enclosure began to be a widespread feature of the English agricultural landscape during the 16th century. By the 19th century, unenclosed commons had become largely restricted to rough pasture in mountainous areas and to relatively small parts of the lowlands. The process of enclosure has sometimes been accompanied by force, resistance, and bloodshed, and remains among the most controversial areas of agricultural and economic history in England. Marxist and neo-Marxist historians argue that rich landowners used their control of state processes to appropriate public land for their private benefit. This created a landless working class that provided the labour required in the new industries developing in the north of England. For example: "In agriculture the years between 1760 and 1820 are the years of wholesale enclosure in which, in village after village, common rights are lost". "Enclosure was a plain enough case of class robbery".

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of enclosure in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of enclosure in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of enclosure in a Sentence

1. Taras Wankewycz:

   What we have done here is gone beyond the fixed sensor, we now have a sensor that can come out of its enclosure and move, so it's a flying sensor that goes back to its enclosure and provides the data back to its operator, it gives you much more information, also live feed on a situation which you would like to respond to as quickly as possible.

2. Potter Steve Harrison:

   The day before I had actually built myself a small kiln down the back — a coffin-sized kiln — just big enough for me to crawl inside, i could have (died) if I hadn't thought about plan B. In that little kiln enclosure I made, I had a fire extinguisher, a bucket of water, a drinking water bottle and a fire blanket.

3. Erik Friis:

   An eruv was erected on our utility poles clandestinely in the middle of the night and without the towns’ permission in order to extend the size of their existing religious enclosure.

4. Chloe Pfendler:

   Nearly half of the letters were discovered to still be folded inside of their corresponding envelopes, this required processing staff to carefully remove each letter from its enclosure in order to improve and streamline handling of the materials in the reading room.

5. John Moyles:

   The individual said that they had [the alligator] in an outdoor enclosure and that his daughter accidentally left the cage open, which allowed the alligator to escape.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=enclosure
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Enclosure
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=enclosure
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/enclosure
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=enclosure