CLOSURE

closure, closedown, closing, shutdown

(noun) termination of operations; “they regretted the closure of the day care center”

closing, closure

(noun) approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap; “the ship’s rapid rate of closing gave them little time to avoid a collision”

blockage, closure, occlusion

(noun) the act of blocking

blockage, block, closure, occlusion, stop, stoppage

(noun) an obstruction in a pipe or tube; “we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe”

settlement, resolution, closure

(noun) something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making; “they finally reached a settlement with the union”; “they never did achieve a final resolution of their differences”; “he needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure”

closure, law of closure

(noun) 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

closure, cloture, gag rule, gag law

(noun) a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body

closure, cloture

(verb) terminate debate by calling for a vote; “debate was closured”; “cloture the discussion”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

closure (countable and uncountable, plural closures)

An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.

A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.

A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.

(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.

(mathematics) The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.

(topology, of a set) The smallest closed set which contains the given set.

The act of shutting; a closing.

That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.

(obsolete) That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.

(politics) A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.

The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.

Hyponyms

• (computing): function closure, lexical closure

• (device): clasp, hasp, latch, hook and eye

Troponyms

• (computer science) thunk

Anagrams

• Clouser, colures

Source: Wiktionary

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Clo"sure (, 135), n. Etym: [Of. closure, L. clausura, fr. clauedere to shut. See Close, v. t.]

1. The act of shutting; a closing; as, the closure of a chink.

2. That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed. Without a seal, wafer, or any closure whatever. Pope.

3. That which incloses or confines; an inclosure. O thou bloody prison . . . Within the guilty closure of thy walls Richard the Second here was hacked to death. Shak.

4. A conclusion; an end. [Obs.] Shak.

5. (Parliamentary Practice)

Definition: A method of putting an end to debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body. It is similar in effect to the previous question. It was first introduced into the British House of Commons in 1882. The French word clôture was originally applied to this proceeding.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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