Roman Catholic Church. the part of a monastery or convent canonically separated or restricted as the living quarters of the religious, from which a person may leave only with special permission or gain entrance to by special dispensation.
There is something to be said for the confining box of the proscenium stage and the sense of enclosure it can create.
Ask students what zookeepers must consider when building an enclosure for tigers.
Indeed this is a modern version of the enclosure movement.
He is not the first architect to experiment with degrees of openness and enclosure in a stadium.
It has fenced a large enclosure for breeding desert bighorn sheep.
They gave the rats plenty of time to learn the first enclosure.
Both males and females strode about the enclosure picking up fruit and mingling with their friends.
The same desire for enclosure that fuels gated developments is at the heart of the success of golf courses.
Lying in the enclosure of a magnetic resonance imaging machine, the subjects in the experiment had been told not to laugh aloud.
They put a specially reinforced jumbo-sized mirror into the elephants' enclosure.
British Dictionary definitions for enclosure
enclosure
/ɪnˈkləʊʒə/
noun
1.
the act of enclosing or state of being enclosed
2.
a region or area enclosed by or as if by a fence
3.
the act of appropriating land, esp common land, by putting a hedge or other barrier around it
(history) such acts as were carried out at various periods in England, esp between the 12th and 14th centuries and finally in the 18th and 19th centuries
4.
a fence, wall, etc, that serves to enclose
5.
something, esp a supporting document, enclosed within an envelope or wrapper, esp together with a letter
6.
(Brit) a section of a sports ground, racecourse, etc, allotted to certain spectators
Word Origin and History for enclosure
n.
mid-15c., "action of enclosing," from enclose + -ure. Meaning "that which is enclosed" is from 1550s.