ALL meanings of closure
clo·sure
C c - variable noun closure The closure of a place such as a business or factory is the permanent ending of the work or activity there. 3
- countable noun closure The closure of a road or border is the blocking of it in order to prevent people from using it. 3
- uncountable noun closure If someone achieves closure, they succeed in accepting something bad that has happened to them. 3
- noun closure the act of closing or the state of being closed 3
- noun closure an end or conclusion 3
- noun closure something that closes or shuts, such as a cap or seal for a container 3
- noun closure (in a deliberative body) a procedure by which debate may be halted and an immediate vote taken 3
- noun closure the resolution of a significant event or relationship in a person's life 3
- noun closure a sense of contentment experienced after such a resolution 3
- noun closure the vertical distance between the crest of an anticline and the lowest contour that surrounds it 3
- noun closure the obstruction of the breath stream at some point along the vocal tract, such as the complete occlusion preliminary to the articulation of a stop 3
- noun closure the closed sentence formed from a given open sentence by prefixing universal or existential quantifiers to bind all its free variables 3
- noun closure the process of forming such a closed sentence 3
- noun closure the smallest closed set containing a given set 3
- noun closure the operation of forming such a set 3
- noun closure the tendency, first noted by Gestalt psychologists, to see an incomplete figure like a circle with a gap in it as more complete than it is 3
- verb closure (in a deliberative body) to end (debate) by closure 3
- noun closure a closing or being closed 3
- noun closure a finish; end; conclusion 3
- noun closure the feeling that one's prolonged state of emotional distress over some traumatic experience or situation has finally ended 3
- noun closure anything that closes or shuts 3
- abbreviation CLOSURE cloture 3
- noun closure the vertical distance between the highest point of an anticlinal structure and the lowest contour that encircles it 3
- noun closure the property of a set in which an operation on pairs of its elements always produces an element of the set 3
- noun closure a blocking of the air stream at some point in the oral cavity 3
- noun closure The act or process of closing something, especially an institution, thoroughfare, or frontier, or of being closed. 1
- noun closure the act of closing; the state of being closed. 1
- noun closure a bringing to an end; conclusion. 1
- noun closure something that closes or shuts. 1
- noun closure closer1 (def 2). 1
- noun closure an architectural screen or parapet, especially one standing free between columns or piers. 1
- noun closure Phonetics. an occlusion of the vocal tract as an articulatory feature of a particular speech sound. Compare constriction (def 5). 1
- noun closure Parliamentary Procedure. a cloture. 1
- noun closure Surveying. completion of a closed traverse in such a way that the point of origin and the endpoint coincide within an acceptably small margin of error. Compare error of closure. 1
- noun closure Mathematics. the property of being closed with respect to a particular operation. the intersection of all closed sets that contain a given set. 1
- noun closure Psychology. the tendency to see an entire figure even though the picture of it is incomplete, based primarily on the viewer's past experience. a sense of psychological certainty or completeness: a need for closure. 1
- noun closure Obsolete. something that encloses or shuts in; enclosure. 1
- noun closure emotional 1
- noun Technical meaning of closure 1. (programming) In a reduction system, a closure is a data structure that holds an expression and an environment of variable bindings in which that expression is to be evaluated. The variables may be local or global. Closures are used to represent unevaluated expressions when implementing functional programming languages with lazy evaluation. In a real implementation, both expression and environment are represented by pointers. A suspension is a closure which includes a flag to say whether or not it has been evaluated. The term "thunk" has come to be synonymous with "closure" but originated outside functional programming. 2. (theory) In domain theory, given a partially ordered set, D and a subset, X of D, the upward closure of X in D is the union over all x in X of the sets of all d in D such that x <= d. Thus the upward closure of X in D contains the elements of X and any greater element of D. A set is "upward closed" if it is the same as its upward closure, i.e. any d greater than an element is also an element. The downward closure (or "left closure") is similar but with d <= x. A downward closed set is one for which any d less than an element is also an element. ("<=" is written in LaTeX as \subseteq and the upward closure of X in D is written &#xparr;ow_{D} X). 1
- abbreviation CLOSURE closing 1
- noun closure ending, conclusion 1
- noun closure (topology, of a set) The smallest closed set which contains the given set. 0
- noun closure The act of shutting; a closing. 0
- noun closure That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed. 0
- noun closure (Obsolete (No longer in use)) That which encloses or confines; an enclosure. 0
- noun closure A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body. 0
- noun closure An event or occurrence that signifies an ending. 0
- noun closure A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period. 0
- noun closure A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing. 0
- noun closure (computer science) 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. 0