closed

adj
/kləʊzd/UK/kloʊzd/US

Definitions

  1. Physically obstructed, sealed, etc.

    • A closed and locked door prevented my escape.
    • The channel was closed as a result of thick ice.
  2. Not available for operation, participation, interaction, etc.

    • Phone lines are now closed.
  3. Completed, finalised.

    • This subject is now closed.
  4. + 11 more definitions
    1. Having an open complement.

    2. Such that its image under the specified operation is contained in it.

      • The set of integers is closed under addition: #92;forallx,y#92;in#92;mathbb#123;Z#125;,#92;,x#43;y#92;in#92;mathbb#123;Z#125;.
    3. Lacking a free variable.

    4. Lacking endpoints. For parametric curves, with the same image for the ends of the domain.

    5. Lacking a boundary.

    6. Formed by closing the mouth and nose passages completely, like the consonants /t/, /d/,…

      Formed by closing the mouth and nose passages completely, like the consonants /t/, /d/, and /p/.

    7. Having the sound cut off sharply by a following consonant, like the /ɪ/ in pin.

    8. Having component words joined together without spaces or hyphens

      Having component words joined together without spaces or hyphens; for example, timeslot as opposed to time slot or time-slot.

    9. Synonym of close.

    10. Of a club, bat or other hitting implement

      Of a club, bat or other hitting implement; angled downwards and/or (for a right-hander) anticlockwise of straight.

    11. simple past and past participle of close

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at closed. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at closed. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at closed

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA