enclaves

Noun

enclave (plural enclaves)

1. A political, cultural or social entity or part thereof that is completely surrounded by another.
   • The Republic of San Marino is an enclave of Italy.
2. A group that is set off from a larger population by its characteristic or behavior.
   • They were learning to do what in all my years in the music business I never saw — which was women running a record company, women producing concerts, women learning to be engineers, women moving into this absolutely all-male enclave. You never saw a woman in any of those positions, in any of that...1989 December 3, Pam Mitchell, Ronnie Gilbert, “Carrying On The Honorable Tradition Of 'Protest Music'”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 21, page 9
3. 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.
   • 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

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