enclosing noun 2adjective 1forms 1 noun2 •That which encloses. •The act or situation by which something is enclosed.Duane Duck is a play of boxes, explicit and implicit, frangible or firm; indeed, Duane Duck is a play about boxes, a performance of all manner of relations to enclosings. — 1995 adjective1 •Of a region, containing all points of a given set within its bounds. formsenclosings