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  2. Enclosure - Wikipedia

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    Enclosure or inclosure [a] is a term, used in English landownership, that refers to the appropriation of "waste" [b] or "common land" [c], enclosing it, and by doing ...

  3. NEMA enclosure types - Wikipedia

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    Below is a list of NEMA enclosure types; these types are further defined in NEMA 250- Enclosures for Electrical Equipment. Each type specifies characteristics of an enclosure, but not, for example, a specific enclosure size. Note that higher numbers do not include the lower-numbered tests. For example, types 3, 4 and 6 are intended for outdoor ...

  4. Compound (enclosure) - Wikipedia

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    In the United Kingdom, "compound" is not generally used in the sense of an unfortified enclosure, and not for homes. There, as in North American English, if used for a place, it is most likely to be taken to mean a fortified military compound. The unfortified enclosure usage was developed by the British Empire in Asia and Africa.

  5. Housing (engineering) - Wikipedia

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    A transparent plastic housing around an electronic device. In engineering, a housing or enclosure is a container, a protective exterior (e.g. shell) or an enclosing structural element (e.g. chassis or exoskeleton) designed to enable easier handling, provide attachment points for internal mechanisms (e.g. mounting brackets for electrical components, cables and pipings), maintain cleanliness of ...

  6. Boma (enclosure) - Wikipedia

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    The word originally may be from Bantu or Persian, and it has been incorporated into many African languages, as well as colonial varieties of English, French and German. As a livestock enclosure, a boma is the equivalent of kraal .

  7. Pen (enclosure) - Wikipedia

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    In Australia and New Zealand a pen is a small enclosure for livestock (especially sheep or cattle), which is part of a larger construction, e.g. calf pen, forcing pen (or yard) in sheep or cattle yards, or a sweating pen or catching pen in a shearing shed.

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  9. Henge - Wikipedia

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    Henge enclosure (> 300 m (1,000 ft)). [3] A Neolithic ring earthwork with the ditch inside the bank, with the central flat area having abundant evidence of occupation and usually being more than 300 m (980 ft) in diameter.