Entrenchment

noun

An advance beyond proper or legal limits: encroachment, impingement, infringement, intrusion, obtrusion, trespass. See enter/exit.

Literally, ‘digging in’. The property of a framework document, such as a constitution, that it makes itself difficult to amend.

A predicate is entrenched if it is true as a matter of historical fact that it has been used to formulate true predictions. Goodman argued that this is the only property separating well-behaved, ‘projectible’ predicates from badly-behaved but syntactically simple predicates that can be defined. See Goodman's paradox.

The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: an entrenched fortification; a position protected by trenches
  Synonym: intrenchment

Entrenchment.

Entrenchment may refer to:

• A method of trench digging, particularly with relation to Trench warfare.
• A type of fortification created by digging (which may or may not be manned).
• An entrenched clause within a political constitution.
• The process of erosion whereby a river becomes entrenched.
• Entrenchment Hypothesis in Financial Theory, usually referring to strategy involved with making a company less attractive to outside bidders.

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