closure en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (US) audio
- /ˈkləʉ.ʒə(ɹ)/ (Australia)
- /ˈkloʊ.ʒɚ/ (US)
- klō'zhər
- /ˈkləʊ.ʒə(ɹ)/ (UK)
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.
Meanings
- (countable, uncountable) An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
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(countable, figuratively, uncountable) A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
In crowded rooms, and I keep lookin' for closeness / Maybe I'll never get closure
2024, “Crowded Roomz”, in Silence is Loud, performed by Nia Archives: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.
2025 March 14, Gershom Gorenberg, “Netanyahu Doesn’t Want the Truth to Come Out”, in The Atlantic:to find emotional closure
- (countable, uncountable) A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
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(countable, uncountable) 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.
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.
2021, Luis Atencio, The Joy of JavaScript, New York: Manning Publications, →ISBN, page 82:
- (countable, uncountable) The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
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(countable, of a set, uncountable) The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
7 THEOREM The closure of any set is the union of the set and the set of its accumulation points.
1955 [Van Nostrand Reinhold], John L. Kelley, General Topology, 2017, Dover, page 42, The closure (𝔗-closure) of a subset A of a topological space (X,𝔗) is the intersection of the members of the family of all closed sets containing A. […]
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(countable, uncountable) The act of shutting; a closing.
the closure of a door, or of a chink
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(countable, uncountable) 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.
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.
2021 October 20, Paul Stephen, “Leisure and pleasure on the Far North Line”, in RAIL, number 942, page 48:Schrinner has since said the closures are needed to assess storm damage and to build the case for a major bridge restoration.
2025 April 13, Joe Hinchliffe, “Sudden closure of Story Bridge to cyclists shows ‘car is still king in Brisbane’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN: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.
1960 December, B. Perren, “The role of the Great Central—present and future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 765:
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(countable, uncountable) That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
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.
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(countable, obsolete, uncountable) That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.
O thou bloody prison […] / Within the guilty closure of thy walls / Richard the Second here was hacked to death.
c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
- (countable, uncountable) A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.
- (countable, uncountable) The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others based on various criteria.
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(countable, uncountable) The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.
The comic book reader performs closure within each panel, between panels, and among panels.
2009, Randy Duncan, Matthew J. Smith, The Power of Comics: History, Form and Culture, page 166:
- (countable, qualifier:food packaging industry, uncountable) The element of packaging that closes a container.
- (countable, qualifier:Gestalt psychology, uncountable) The phenomenon whereby incomplete objects, shapes, and figures are perceived as complete.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| closures | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Deriveds
semiclosure · misclosure · closure axiom · nonclosure · Kleene closure · openture · harp closure · topological closure operator · preclosure · algebraic closure · closure system · Clojure · transitive closure · subclosure · closureless · postclosure · reclosure · kangaroo closure · overclosure · closure space · closure temperature · algebraic closure operator · closure operator · microclosure · deductive closure
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Translations (89)
hu lezárt (mathematics: type of set) · nl beëindiging (event signifying an ending) · fi sulkeuma (topology: type of set) · fi suljin (device to facilitate opening and closing) · fr fermeture (programming: type of abstraction) · nl afsluiting (event signifying an ending) · id penyelesaian (feeling of completeness) · sv avrundning (event signifying an ending) · es cerradura (topology: type of set) · fa بستماندیک (programming: type of abstraction) · is lokun (programming: type of abstraction) · ml സമാപനം (event signifying an ending) · ja 閉包 (mathematics: type of set) · ca clausura (event signifying an ending) · fi sulkeuma (mathematics: type of set) · pt término (event signifying an ending) · pl domknięcie (mathematics: type of set) · ru закры́тие (event signifying an ending) · es cerradura (programming: type of abstraction) · cs uzavírka (event signifying an ending) · es cierre (act of shutting; a closing) · pt desfecho (feeling of completeness) · fa بستار (programming: type of abstraction) · sv hölje (mathematics: type of set) · it termine (event signifying an ending) · ja 閉苞 (mathematics: type of set) · ja 関数閉包 (programming: type of abstraction) · it chiusura (programming: type of abstraction) · fi sulkija (device to facilitate opening and closing) · gd dùnadh (event signifying an ending) · pt final (feeling of completeness) · el κλείσιμο (programming: type of abstraction) · pt fecho (event signifying an ending) · de Schließung (event signifying an ending) · pt encerramento (event signifying an ending) · es clausura (mathematics: type of set) · de Abschluss (feeling of completeness) · ml അടപ്പ് (device to facilitate opening and closing) · es cierre (topology: type of set) · es clausura (act of shutting; a closing) · es clausura (topology: type of set) · fi klosuuri (programming: type of abstraction) · it chiusura (event signifying an ending) · ja クロージャ (programming: type of abstraction) · es clausura (programming: type of abstraction) · it chiusura (mathematics: type of set) · ga iamh an tacair (mathematics: type of set) · bg закриване (event signifying an ending) · es cierre (mathematics: type of set) · es cerramiento (act of shutting; a closing) · de Hülle (mathematics: type of set) · de Funktionsabschluss (programming: type of abstraction) · pt fechamento (mathematics: type of set) · cs uzavření (event signifying an ending) · pt clausura (programming: type of abstraction) · de Schließen (act of shutting; a closing) · fr fermeture (mathematics: type of set) · es cierre (event signifying an ending) · cs uzávěr (mathematics: type of set) · es cierre (feeling of completeness) · bg обвивка (mathematics: type of set) · fi sulkeminen (act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily) · es cerramiento (act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily) · es clausura (event signifying an ending) · is lokun (mathematics: type of set) · de Closure (programming: type of abstraction) · fi sulkeminen (act of shutting; a closing) · ro închidere (event signifying an ending) · nl sluiting (event signifying an ending) · es cierre (device to facilitate opening and closing) · ne बन्द (event signifying an ending) · fi klosuuri (politics: method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote) · mi katinga (act of shutting; a closing) · cmn 閉包 /闭包 (mathematics: type of set) · fi lopettaminen (event signifying an ending) · ru оконча́ние (event signifying an ending) · ro închidere (mathematics: type of set) · is lokaður hjúpur (topology: type of set) · fi suljin (food packaging industry: element of packaging that closes a container) · de Verschluss (device to facilitate opening and closing) · cmn 閉包 /闭包 (programming: type of abstraction) · pt término (feeling of completeness) · ca clausura (programming: type of abstraction) · fi sulkeuma (programming: type of abstraction) · ml അടച്ചുപൂട്ടൽ (event signifying an ending) · da afslutning (mathematics: type of set) · de Schloss (device to facilitate opening and closing) · sv avslutning (event signifying an ending) · fi sulkeminen (event signifying an ending)