closure
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Etymology [edit]
From Old French closure, from Latin clausura, from claudere (“to close”); see clausure and close.
Noun [edit]
closure (plural closures)
- An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
- A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
- A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
- (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.
- (mathematics) The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
- (topology, of a set) The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
- The act of shutting; a closing.
- the closure of a door, or of a chink
- That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
- Alexander Pope
- Without a seal, wafer, or any closure whatever.
- Alexander Pope
- (obsolete) That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.
- Shakespeare
- O thou bloody prison […] / Within the guilty closure of thy walls / Richard the Second here was hacked to death.
- Shakespeare
- A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.
Hyponyms [edit]
- (device): clasp, hasp, latch, hook and eye
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Translations [edit]
event signifying an ending
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feeling of completeness
computing
mathematical set
