English Explanatory Dictionary

closure

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
  2. A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
  3. A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
  4. 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.
  5. The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
  6. The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
  7. The act of shutting; a closing.
  8. The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily.
  9. That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
  10. That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.
  11. A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.
  12. The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others based on various criteria. ᵂᵖ
verb
  1. To end the parliamentary debate on (an issue) by closure.

Pronunciation

klō'zhər /ˈkləʊ.ʒə(ɹ)/ /ˈkloʊ.ʒɚ/ en-us-closure.ogg /ˈkləʉ.ʒə(ɹ)/

Word forms

closure closures closuring closured

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.

Synonyms

fastener

Antonyms

uncertainty

Related words

cloture

Derived words

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
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