Closure

/ˈkləʊ.ʒə(ɹ)/ · noun

Meaning

An event or occurrence that signifies an ending..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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

the closure of a door, or of a chink

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.

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Word Forms

• closures
• closuring
• closured

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