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closure

noun
/ˈkləʊ.ʒə(ɹ)/UK/ˈkloʊ.ʒɚ/US/ˈkləʉ.ʒə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From Middle English closure, from Old French closure, from Late Latin clausura, from Latin claudere (“to close”); see clausure and cloture (etymological doublets) and close.

  1. derived from claudere
  2. derived from clausura
  3. derived from closure
  4. inherited from closure

Definitions

  1. An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.

  2. A feeling of completeness

    A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.

    • to find emotional closure
    • In crowded rooms, and I keep lookin' for closeness / Maybe I'll never get closure
    • In Israel, a state commission of inquiry is not merely a judicial instrument or a means of settling facts. It’s a ritual of national closure that allows people to put events in order and move on.

  3. A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.

  4. ›+ 12 more definitions

    1. An abstraction that represents a function within an environment, a context consisting of…

      An abstraction that represents a function within an environment, a context consisting of the variables that are both bound at a particular time during the execution of the program and that are within the function's scope.

    2. The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.

    3. The smallest closed set which contains the given set.

      • 7 THEOREM The closure of any set is the union of the set and the set of its accumulation points.

    4. The act of shutting

      The act of shutting; a closing.

      • the closure of a door, or of a chink

    5. The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily.

      • The closure of Hammersmith Bridge means road traffic has to use Chiswick and Putney Bridges instead.
      • Those who have advocated the closure of the G.C. have so far failed to say by which alternative route this North-to-West traffic could be carried.

    6. That which closes or shuts

      That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.

    7. That which encloses or confines

      That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.

      • O thou bloody prison […] / Within the guilty closure of thy walls / Richard the Second here was hacked to death.

    8. A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure…

      A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.

    9. The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others based…

      The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others based on various criteria. ᵂᵖ

    10. The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking…

      The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.

      • The comic book reader performs closure within each panel, between panels, and among panels.

    11. The element of packaging that closes a container.

    12. To end the parliamentary debate on (an issue) by closure.

      • At any time they could have stopped discussion by closuring amendments and by closuring the clause under discussion.

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Derived

algebraic closure, algebraic closure operator, Clojure, closure axiom, closureless, closure operator, closure space, closure system, closure temperature, deductive closure, harp closure, kangaroo closure, Kleene closure, microclosure, misclosure, nonclosure, openture, overclosure, postclosure, preclosure, reclosure, semiclosure, subclosure, topological closure operator, transitive closure

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for closure. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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