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Closure
Definitions
- 1 An event or occurrence that signifies an ending. countable, uncountable
- 2 termination of operations wordnet
- 3 A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period. countable, figuratively, uncountable
"to find emotional closure"
- 4 approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap wordnet
- 5 A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing. countable, uncountable
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- 6 the act of blocking wordnet
- 7 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
"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."
- 8 an obstruction in a pipe or tube wordnet
- 9 The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property. countable, uncountable
- 10 something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making wordnet
- 11 The smallest closed set which contains the given set. countable, uncountable
"7 THEOREM The closure of any set is the union of the set and the set of its accumulation points."
- 12 a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric wordnet
- 13 The act of shutting; a closing. countable, uncountable
"the closure of a door, or of a chink"
- 14 a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body wordnet
- 15 The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily. countable, uncountable
"The closure of Hammersmith Bridge means road traffic has to use Chiswick and Putney Bridges instead."
- 16 That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed. countable, uncountable
"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."
- 17 That which encloses or confines; an enclosure. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"O thou bloody prison […] / Within the guilty closure of thy walls / Richard the Second here was hacked to death."
- 18 A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body. countable, uncountable
- 19 The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others based on various criteria. ᵂᵖ countable, uncountable
- 20 The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels. countable, uncountable
"The comic book reader performs closure within each panel, between panels, and among panels."
- 21 The element of packaging that closes a container. countable, uncountable
- 1 To end the parliamentary debate on (an issue) by closure. transitive
"At any time they could have stopped discussion by closuring amendments and by closuring the clause under discussion."
- 2 terminate debate by calling for a vote wordnet
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.
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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