enclosureとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English enclosure, from Old French enclosure, from enclore, from Latin inclūdere, inclūdō, from in- (“in”) + claudō (“to shut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂u- (“key, hook, nail”). Alike to inclusion.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ɛnˈkloʊʒəɹ/, /ɪnˈkloʊʒəɹ/
• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈkləʊʒə/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ɘnˈklɐʉʒɘ/
• ハイフネーション: en‧clo‧sure

名詞

enclosure (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 enclosures)

1. (countable) Something enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.

   There was an enclosure with the letter — a photo.

2. (uncountable) The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package.

   The enclosure of a photo with your letter is appreciated.

3. (countable) An area, domain, or amount of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers.

   He faced punishment for creating the fenced enclosure in a public park.

   The glass enclosure holds the mercury vapor.

   The winning horse was first into the unsaddling enclosure.

   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], OCLC 1042815524, part I, page 199:

     And the village was deserted, the huts gaped black, rotting, all askew within the fallen enclosures.

4. (uncountable) The act of separating and surrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier.

   The enclosure of public land is against the law.

   The experiment requires the enclosure of mercury vapor in a glass tube.

   At first, untrained horses resist enclosure.

5. (uncountable, by extension) The act of restricting access to ideas, works of art or technologies using patents or intellectual property laws.
   • 2014, Astra Taylor, chapter 5, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:

     Copyright, from day one, was designed to be both an impediment and an incentive, a mechanism of enclosure (one that prevented the unlicensed printing of texts, thereby limiting access) and a catalyst of sorts, a structure to stimulate the production of literary goods by rewarding writers and publishers for their labor.

   • 2019, Robert Stam, World Literature, Transnational Cinema, and Global Media‎^[1], Routledge, →ISBN:

     The commons evokes resistance to “enclosure” in all its forms, whether in its early proto-capitalist form of fencing in commonly shared land, or in its contemporary forms of marshalling judicial restraints such as “patent” and “intellectual property” to police the ownership of ideas.

6. (uncountable, 英国用法 History) The post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership.

   Strip-farming disappeared after enclosure.

7. (religion) The area of a convent, monastery, etc where access is restricted to community members.

使用する際の注意点

• For more on the spelling of this word, see enclose.