exclaveとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈɛkskleɪv/

名詞

exclave (plural exclaves)

1. A portion of a country's territory not connected to the main part.

   Coordinate terms: enclave, pene-enclave, pene-exclave

   Alaska and Kaliningrad are both examples of exclaves.

   • 2006 March 24, r, “World's smallest enclave?”, in Micro-Nations.com (MNO)‎, archived from the original on 10 August 2008:

     While there has never been a macronational bedroom nation, some exclaves have been barely larger.

   • 2022 March 10, Daniel Howden, “Europe has rediscovered compassion for refugees – but only if they’re white”, in The Guardian‎:

     Spain’s Melilla, one of two small exclaves of EU land on the African continent, has long been the strongest distillation of fortress Europe.

   • 2022 August 24, Ruth Cassidy, “Crusader Kings 3 update looks to tone-down the 'border gore' of endless conquest”, in PC Gamer‎, archived from the original on 3 October 2022:

     France, but the shape of a giraffe, with a number of its counties belonging to Wales, with an odd little exclave far up North in Norway? That's border gore.

2. (medicine, rare) A detached part of an organ, as of the pancreas, thyroid (accessory thyroids), or other gland.

動詞

exclave (third-person singular simple present exclaves, present participle exclaving, simple past and past participle exclaved) (transitive)

1. To separate a region in a way that turns it into an exclave.