closure
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From Old French closure, from Latin clausura, from claudere (“to close”); see clausure and close.
[edit] Noun
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.
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- (device): clasp, hasp, latch, hook and eye
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event signifying an ending
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feeling of completeness
computing
mathematical set
