enclosure
Other forms: enclosures
An enclosure is something that closes you in, like a pen or a cage. When a cobra disappeared from an enclosure at the Bronx Zoo, the entire Reptile House had to be shut down until the snake was found.
An enclosure can also be something that's included in an envelope with a cover letter of some sort. If you're sending a letter to your literary agent and you’re including a few pages of your latest limericks, you might put "enc." at the bottom of the letter, to indicate that you've included something extra in the envelope — an enclosure.
Definitions of enclosure
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a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purposetypes:cargo area, cargo deck, cargo hold, hold, storage areathe space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargocatchallan enclosure or receptacle for odds and endschambera natural or artificial enclosed spacecompoundan enclosure of residences and other buildings (especially in the Orient)dockan enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trialecho chamberan enclosed space for producing reverberation of a soundlock, lock chamberenclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through itnacellea streamlined enclosure for an aircraft enginepenan enclosure for confining livestockpitan enclosure in which animals are made to fightplenuman enclosed space in which the air pressure is higher than outsidevivariuman indoor enclosure for keeping and raising living animals and plants and observing them under natural conditionsyardan enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)apse, apsisa domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church; usually contains the altaraquarium, fish tank, marine museuma tank or pool or bowl filled with water for keeping live fish and underwater animalsbarnyarda yard adjoining a barnbirdcagea cage in which a bird can be keptair-raid shelter, bomb shelter, bombproofa chamber (often underground) reinforced against bombing and provided with food and living facilities; used during air raidscamera obscuraa darkened enclosure in which images of outside objects are projected through a small aperture or lens onto a facing surfacecockpita pit for cockfightscorethe chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes placecreepa pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannotfarmyardan area adjacent to farm buildingsfireplace, hearth, open fireplacea built-in, open space in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be builtfurnacean enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.hutcha cage (usually made of wood and wire mesh) for small animalshyperbaric chambera large chamber in which the oxygen pressure is above normal for the atmosphere; used in treating breathing disorders or carbon monoxide poisoningkraala pen for livestock in southern Africamihrab(Islam) a niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the direction of Meccapaddockpen where racehorses are saddled and paraded before a raceparticle detectora chamber in which particles can be made visiblepinfolda pen where stray animals are confinedcavity resonator, resonating chamber, resonatora hollow chamber whose dimensions allow the resonant oscillation of electromagnetic or acoustic wavesrodeoan enclosure for cattle that have been rounded upsquirrel cagecage with a cylindrical framework that rotates as a small animal runs inside itsteam chestthe chamber from which steam is distributed to a cylinderstockyardenclosed yard where cattle, pigs, horses, or sheep are kept temporarilyfireroom, stokehold, stokehole(nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or firedpacking box, stuffing boxa small chamber in which packing is compressed around a reciprocating shaft or piston to form a sealterrariuma vivarium in which selected living plants are kept and observedtokamaka doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research; a plasma is heated and confined in a magnetic bottlevacuum chambera chamber from which nearly all matter (especially air) has been removedtype of:areaa part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function
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a naturally enclosed spacesynonyms: natural enclosure
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the act of enclosing something inside something elsesynonyms: enclosing, envelopment, inclosuretypes:bundlingthe act of binding something into a bundletype of:
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something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering lettersynonyms: inclosuretype of:document, papers, written documentwriting that provides information (especially information of an official nature)
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