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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 so depriving commoners of their traditional rights of access and usage.

  3. Enclosure (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Enclosure was the legal process in England of enclosing a number of small landholdings to create one larger farm. Enclosure or enclosed may also refer to: Land

  4. Glossary of computer hardware terms - Wikipedia

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    Also chassis, cabinet, box, tower, enclosure, housing, system unit, or simply case. The enclosure that contains most of the components of a computer, usually excluding the display, keyboard, mouse, and various other peripherals. computer fan An active cooling system forcing airflow inside or around a computer case using a fan to cause air cooling.

  5. Opposite - Wikipedia

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    An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.

  6. 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.

  7. 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 ...

  8. Glossary of architecture - Wikipedia

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    An enclosure or chapel within which the fereter shrine, or tomb (as in Henry VII's chapel), was placed. [44] Fillet 1. A small band, either raised or sunken and usually square, used to separate mouldings. [45] 2. The raised edge between two flutes on a column or pilaster, if that edge is flat. [46] Finial

  9. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.