Usually means: Territories entirely surrounded by another.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word enclaves:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. enclaves: Merriam-Webster
  2. enclaves: Collins English Dictionary
  3. enclaves: Vocabulary.com
  4. Enclaves, enclave's, enclaves: Wordnik
  5. enclaves: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. enclaves: Wiktionary
  7. enclaves: Dictionary.com
  8. enclaves: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Enclaves: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Enclaves: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Enclaves: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. enclaves: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Enclaves: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (enclave)

noun:  A political, cultural or social entity or part thereof that is completely surrounded by another.
noun:  A group that is set off from a larger population by its characteristic or behavior.
noun:  (computing) 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.
verb:  (transitive) To enclose within a foreign territory.
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