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.