Meaning of Closure | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
   countable, uncountable
2. Act by which gives formal end to an event, congress or meeting.
3. A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable
4. A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
   countable, uncountable
5. 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.
   countable, uncountable
6. The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
   countable, uncountable
7. The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
   countable, uncountable
8. The act of shutting; a closing.
   countable, uncountable
9. The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily.
   countable, uncountable
10. That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
    countable, uncountable
11. That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
12. A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.
    countable, uncountable
13. The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others based on various criteria. ᵂᵖ
    countable, uncountable
14. The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.
    countable, uncountable
15. The element of packaging that closes a container.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“Schrinner has since said the closures are needed to assess storm damage and to build the case for a major bridge restoration.”

“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.”

“O thou bloody prison […] / Within the guilty closure of thy walls / Richard the Second here was hacked to death.”

“The comic book reader performs closure within each panel, between panels, and among panels.”

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