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plural enclaves
A political, cultural or social entity or part thereof that is completely surrounded by another. examples
A group that is set off from a larger population by its characteristic or behavior. quotations examples
What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq.
2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS ”, in The New York Times
(computing) 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. quotations examples
When an enclave spans a system boundary in a sysplex, it is called a multisystem enclave.
2010, Mike Ebbers, Dino Tonelli, Jason Arnold, Co-locating Transactional and Data Warehouse Workloads on System z, page 245
third-person singular simple present enclaves, present participle enclaving, simple past and past participle enclaved
(transitive) To enclose within a foreign territory. examples