closure

== English == === 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. === Pronunciation === enPR: klō'zhər (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkləʊ.ʒə(ɹ)/ (US) IPA(key): /ˈkloʊ.ʒɚ/ (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈkləʉ.ʒə(ɹ)/ Rhymes: (UK) -əʊʒə(ɹ) === Noun === closure (countable and uncountable, plural closures) An event or occurrence that signifies an ending. (figurative) A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period. to find emotional closure Antonym: uncertainty A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing. Hyponyms: clasp, hasp, latch, hook and eye (programming) 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. Hyponyms: function closure, lexical closure Troponym: thunk (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. 1955 [Van Nostrand Reinhold], John L. Kelley, General Topology, 2017, Dover, page 42, The closure ( T {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {T}}} -closure) of a subset A of a topological space ( X , T ) {\displaystyle (X,{\mathfrak {T}})} is the intersection of the members of the family of all closed sets containing A. […] 7 THEOREM The closure of any set is the union of the set and the set of its accumulation points. The act of shutting; a closing. The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily. That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed. Synonym: fastener 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. (obsolete) That which encloses or confines; an enclosure. (politics) A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body. (sociology) The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others based on various criteria. (comics) The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels. (food packaging industry) The element of packaging that closes a container. Hyponyms: bottlecap, bottle cap, bottletop, bottle top, cap, lid, top ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== cloture === Verb === closure (third-person singular simple present closures, present participle closuring, simple past and past participle closured) (transitive, politics) To end the parliamentary debate on (an issue) by closure. === Anagrams === Clouser, colures