closure
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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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.
Inflected forms:
form: closures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: closures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: closuring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: closured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: closured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: to find emotional closure
In crowded rooms, and I keep lookin' for closeness / Maybe I'll never get closure
In Israel, a state commission of inquiry is not merely a judicial instrument or a means of settling facts. It’s a ritual of national closure that allows people to put events in order and move on.
gloss: A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Instead, make f and g input arguments, and use the closure around the inner function so that this code works with any two functions that you provide. Closures are important features that work amazingly well with higher-order functions; I’ll review them in section 4.4.
gloss: The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 7 THEOREM The closure of any set is the union of the set and the set of its accumulation points.
gloss: The act of shutting; a closing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the closure of a door, or of a chink
gloss: The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The closure of Hammersmith Bridge means road traffic has to use Chiswick and Putney Bridges instead.
Those who have advocated the closure of the G.C. have so far failed to say by which alternative route this North-to-West traffic could be carried.
Despite the line proving to be a useful strategic route for men and supplies to the British naval fleets stationed at Scapa Flow in both world wars, the Duke's legacy looked to have passed into history when it was listed for closure in the infamous Beeching report.
Schrinner has since said the closures are needed to assess storm damage and to build the case for a major bridge restoration.
gloss: That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1729 November 28, Alexander Pope, Letter to Jonathan Swift, 1824, The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Volume 17, 2nd Edition, page 284,
I admire on this consideration your sending your last to me quite open, without a seal, wafer, or any closure whatever, manifesting the utter openness of the writer.
gloss: That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: O thou bloody prison […] / Within the guilty closure of thy walls / Richard the Second here was hacked to death.
gloss: A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others based on various criteria.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The comic book reader performs closure within each panel, between panels, and among panels.
gloss: The element of packaging that closes a container.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To end the parliamentary debate on (an issue) by closure.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: At any time they could have stopped discussion by closuring amendments and by closuring the clause under discussion.
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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