Closure

Quick meaning: Closure is a noun meaning An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.

Meaning

An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.

More Meanings

1. (figurative) A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
2. A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
3. (mathematics) The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
4. (topology, of a set) The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
5. The act of shutting; a closing.
6. The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily.
7. (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.

Example Sentences

to find emotional closure

the closure of a door, or of a chink

In crowded rooms, and I keep lookin' for closeness / Maybe I'll never get closure

7 THEOREM The closure of any set is the union of the set and the set of its accumulation points.

Word Forms

• closures
• closuring
• closured

Synonyms for closure

Depending on context, synonyms include fastener, block, stop, closing, occlusion, stoppage.

Antonyms for closure

Common opposites include uncertainty.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include closing, shutdown, stoppage, stop, blockage, occlusion.

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