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closure

/ˈkloʊ.ʒɚ/

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What does closure mean?

noun

  1. An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
  2. (figuratively) A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
  3. A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
More meanings (13)

noun

  1. 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.
  2. The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
  3. The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
  4. The act of shutting; a closing.
  5. The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily.
  6. That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
  7. A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.
  8. The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others based on various criteria.
  9. The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.
  10. The element of packaging that closes a container.
  11. The phenomenon whereby incomplete objects, shapes, and figures are perceived as complete.
  12. (obsolete) That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.

verb

  1. To end the parliamentary debate on (an issue) by closure.
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IPA pronunciation

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These audits may be carried out before the closure of accounts for the financial year in question.
European UnionThe Treaty of the European Union, Maastricht Treaty, 7th February, 1992Project Gutenberg ebook #686
Decision or determination.—The firm closure of the mouth tends to give an expression of determination or decision to the countenance.
Charles DarwinThe Expression of the Emotions in Man and AnimalsProject Gutenberg ebook #1227
More book examples (3)
The mucous membrane may be ulcerated and the pus penned in because of a closure of the mouth from swelling.
J. H. (John Henry) TildenAppendicitis: The Etiology, Hygenic and Dietetic TreatmentProject Gutenberg ebook #4314
In the event that the period of closure spans two fiscal year, the averaging may be only for those two fiscal years.
CanadaNorth American Free Trade Agreement, 1992 Oct. 7 Tariff Phasing DescriptionsProject Gutenberg ebook #89
Bosquet describes a young girl of twenty with a triple vice of conformation--an obliterated vulva, closure of the vagina, and absence of the uterus.
George M. (George Milbrey) Gould; Walter L. (Walter Lytle) PyleAnomalies and Curiosities of MedicineProject Gutenberg ebook #747