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cloze - 2 dictionary results

cloze

[klohz]
–adjective
1. pertaining to or being a procedure used to measure comprehension or text difficulty, in which a person is called upon to supply elements that have been systematically deleted from a text.
–noun
2. a cloze procedure or test.

Origin:
1953; back formation from closure (def. 10), resp. to make it distinct from close
cloze   (klōz)   
adj.  Based on or being a test of reading comprehension in which the test taker is asked to supply words that have been systematically deleted from a text.

[Alteration of closure.]
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