self-closing
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
self-closing (not comparable)
- Closing automatically after having been opened.
- 1964 August, “New all-metal CIE coaches”, in Modern Railways, page 109:
- Self-closing, spring-loaded, sliding doors are fitted to ensure that the coaches are draught-proof.
- (web development, of an HTML or XML tag) In the form of (for example)
<br />
or<br>
, without containing any content, as opposed to (for example)<span>text</span>
, which is composed of an opening (<span>
) and a closing (</span>
) tag.
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “self-closing”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.