closure
Pluralclosures (some meanings)
Pluralclosures (some meanings)
Formsclosures, closuring, closured
- 1The calm feeling you get when a hard or painful time is finally over.
Like closing a book once you have read the very last page.
After the funeral, she finally felt some closure.
Talking to his old friend gave him the closure he had been missing.
Similarresolution, peace
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- 3An event that marks the end of something.
Like the last page of a story that ties everything together.
The final concert was a fitting closure to the band's long career.
Graduation felt like the perfect closure to four years of hard study.
Similarend, conclusion, close, finish, termination
Oppositebeginning, start (entry), opening
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- 6A way to end a debate in parliament and force an immediate vote.
Like a teacher saying, "Time's up, let's vote now."
The government used closure to bring the long debate to a quick vote.
Members voted for closure after hours of arguing.
Similarcloture, guillotine
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- 7A saved function that remembers the values around it from where it was made.
Like a backpack a function carries, holding the things it needs from where it was created.
In JavaScript, a closure lets a function use a variable from outside it.
The programmer used a closure to keep track of a running count.
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- 8A part that fastens or holds two pieces together.
Like a clasp that holds a bracelet together.
The necklace has a tiny closure at the back.
He fixed the broken closure on his belt.
Similarfastener
- 9The smallest set that holds a given group and also has a chosen property.
Like the smallest box that can hold all your things plus anything they need.
We found the closure by adding the fewest extra elements needed.
The closure of this group is the smallest set with the property we want.
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- 10In math, the smallest closed set that fully contains a given set of points.
Like drawing a line around a shape and including the edge, not just the inside.
The closure of an open interval also includes its end points.
Adding the boundary points gives the closure of the region.
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- 11A way a group keeps its benefits to itself by shutting outsiders out.
Like a club that only lets in people who already know the members.
Through social closure, the guild kept outsiders from learning the trade.
Closure let the elite club pass advantages down to their own children.
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- 13In comics, the way a reader fills in what happens between the panels.
Like guessing the middle of a story when you only see the start and the end.
Comics rely on closure to let readers imagine the action between panels.
Through closure, we guess what happened in the gap between two pictures.
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- 14To stop a debate in parliament and force an immediate vote on it.
Like a referee blowing the whistle to end the game and call the score.
The majority voted to closure the debate before lunch.
They tried to closure the motion after only an hour of talk.
Similarguillotine
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- 15A fence or wall that shuts something in.
Like a pen that keeps animals from wandering away.
The sheep were kept safe inside a strong closure.
A high closure of stone surrounded the old garden.
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Origin
It comes from an old French word, which came from Latin claudere, meaning "to close."