closure

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Troponyms 1.3.2 See also 1.3.3 Translations

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[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: klō'zhûr

[edit] Etymology

From Old French closure, from Latin clausura, from claudere (“‘to close’”); see clausure and close.

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closure (plural closures)

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. (computer science) 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
4. (mathematics) the smallest object that both includes the object as a subset and possesses some given property

[edit] Troponyms

• (computer science) thunk

[edit] See also

• cloture

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