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closed

[ klohzd ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

having or forming a boundary or barrier:
He was blocked by a closed door.
The house had a closed porch.
brought to a close; concluded:
It was a closed incident with no repercussions.
not public; restricted; exclusive:
a closed meeting;
a closed bid at a private auction.
not open to new ideas or arguments.
self-contained; independent or self-sufficient:
a closed, symbiotic relationship.
Phonetics. (of a syllable) ending with a consonant or a consonant cluster, as has, hasp. Compare open ( def 35b ).
Linguistics. (of a class of items) limited in membership and not readily expanded to include new items, as the class of inflectional affixes, articles, pronouns, or auxiliaries ( open, def 36 ).
Hunting, Angling. restricted as to the kind of game that may be legally taken and as to where or when it may be taken:
woods closed to deer hunters.
Mathematics.
1. (of a set in which a combining operation between members of the set is defined) such that performing the operation between members of the set produces a member of the set, as multiplication in the set of integers.
2. (of an interval) containing both of its endpoints.
3. (of a map from one topological space to another) having the property that the image of a closed set is a closed set.
4. (of a curve) not having endpoints; enclosing an area.
5. (of a surface) enclosing a volume.
6. (of a function or operator) having as its graph a closed set.

closed

/ kləʊzd /

blocked against entry; shut
restricted; exclusive
not open to question or debate
(of a hunting season, etc) close
maths
1. (of a curve or surface) completely enclosing an area or volume
2. (of a set) having members that can be produced by a specific operation on other members of the same set
  the integers are a closed set under multiplication
Alsochecked phonetics
1. denoting a syllable that ends in a consonant
2. another word for close 1
not open to public entry or membership
the closed society of publishing

Origin of closed¹

First recorded in 1175–1225; Middle English; close, -ed ²

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