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The main form of encircling, the "double pincer", is executed by attacks on the flanks of a battle whose mobile forces of the era, such as light infantry, cavalry, tanks, or armoured personnel carriers attempt to force a breakthrough to utilize their speed to join behind the back of the enemy force and complete the "ring" while the main enemy force is stalled by probing attacks.
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. Agreements to enclose land could be either through a formal or informal process. [4]
Enclosed religious orders, religious orders separated from the external world; Oppidum, a large fortified Iron Age settlement; Cloister (from Latin claustrum, "enclosure"), a feature running along the walls of buildings forming a quadrangle; Close (disambiguation) Cover (disambiguation) Container (disambiguation) Receptacle (disambiguation)
An enclave is a part of the territory of a state that is enclosed within the territory of another state. To distinguish the parts of a state entirely enclosed in a single other state, they are called true enclaves. [5]: 10 A true enclave cannot be reached without passing through the territory of a single other state that surrounds it.
[2] [1] However, this definition has been criticised, as it appears many archaeological enclosures are not enclosed by a physical boundary. [ 3 ] [ 2 ] Enclosures served numerous practical purposes including being used to delineate settlement areas, to create defensive positions, or to be used as animal pens. [ 2 ]
Hortus conclusus is a Latin term, meaning literally "enclosed garden". Both words in hortus conclusus refer linguistically to enclosure. [ 1 ] It describes a type of garden that was enclosed as a practical concern, a major theme in the history of gardening , where walled gardens were and are common. [ 2 ]
Enclosed Alphanumerics is a Unicode block of typographical symbols of an alphanumeric within a circle, a bracket or other not-closed enclosure, or ending in a full stop. It is currently fully allocated. Within the Basic Multilingual Plane, a few additional enclosed numerals are in the Dingbats and the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months blocks.
Effectiveness of the shielding of a static electric field is largely independent of the geometry of the conductive material; however, the static magnetic fields can penetrate the shield completely. In the case of varying electromagnetic fields, the faster the variations are (i.e., the higher the frequencies), the better the material resists ...