closure
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ʒər noun
1.
the act of closing; the state of being closed.
2.
a bringing to an end; conclusion.
3.
something that closes or shuts.
4.
closer ( def 2 ).
5.
an architectural screen or parapet, especially one standing free between columns or piers.
6.
Phonetics. an occlusion of the vocal tract as an articulatory feature of a particular speech sound. Compare constriction ( def 5 ).
7.
Parliamentary Procedure. a cloture.
8.
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.
9.
10.
Psychology.
a.
the tendency to see an entire figure even though the picture of it is incomplete, based primarily on the viewer's past experience.
b.
a sense of psychological certainty or completeness: a need for closure.
11.
Obsolete. something that encloses or shuts in; enclosure.
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Closure
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| any one of a variety of ingressive, usually implosive, speech sounds produced by suction occlusion and plosive or affricative release |
| pronounced with glottal vibrations; phonated |
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closure (ˈkləʊʒə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the act of closing or the state of being closed |
| 2. | an end or conclusion |
| 3. | something that closes or shuts, such as a cap or seal for a container |
| 4. | cloture guillotine See also gag rule (in a deliberative body) a procedure by which debate may be halted and an immediate vote taken |
| 5. | chiefly (US) |
| a. the resolution of a significant event or relationship in a person's life | |
| b. a sense of contentment experienced after such a resolution | |
| 6. | geology the vertical distance between the crest of an anticline and the lowest contour that surrounds it |
| 7. | phonetics 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 |
| 8. | logic |
| a. the closed sentence formed from a given open sentence by prefixing universal or existential quantifiers to bind all its free variables | |
| b. the process of forming such a closed sentence | |
| 9. | maths |
| a. the smallest closed set containing a given set | |
| b. the operation of forming such a set | |
| 10. | psychol 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 |
| —vb | |
| 11. | (tr) (in a deliberative body) to end (debate) by closure |
| [C14: from Old French, from Late Latin clausūra bar, from Latin claudere to close] | |
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Word Origin & History
closure
late 14c., from O.Fr. closure "that which encloses," from L. clausura "lock, fortress, a closing," from pp. stem of claudere "to close" (see close (v.)). Originally "a fence," sense of "bringing to a close" is from early 15c. Sense of "tendency to create ordered and satisfying
wholes" is 1924, from Gestalt psychology.
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FOLDOC
Computing Dictionary
closure definition
1.
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.
("<=" is written in LaTeX as \subseteq and the upward closure of X in D is written \uparrow_\D X).
(1994-12-16)
Example sentences
It suspended operations that day and went into closure and liquidation the next month.
The last is of the drippy scion of the once-formidable founding family, who fails even to announce the paper's closure properly.
Conservationists and animal rights advocates have long criticized conditions on the farms and argued for their closure.
Your attempts to invoke closure demonstrate that it is you who lack an understanding of science.
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