closure.
An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
Meaning & usage
An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
to find emotional closure
A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
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.
The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
The act of shutting; a closing.
the closure of a door, or of a chink
The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily.
The closure of Hammersmith Bridge means road traffic has to use Chiswick and Putney Bridges instead.
That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.
A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.
The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others based on various criteria.
The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.
The element of packaging that closes a container.
The phenomenon whereby incomplete objects, shapes, and figures are perceived as complete.
Where this word comes from
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.
To end the parliamentary debate on (an issue) by closure.
Where this word comes from
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.
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