Closure

Pronunciation

• enPR: klō'zhûr
• UK IPA: ˈkləʊʒə(r)
• US IPA: ˈkloʊʒɝ

Origin

From Old French closure, from Latin clausura, from claudere ("to close"); see clausure and close.

Full definition of closure

Noun

1. An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
2. A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
3. A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
4. (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.
5. (mathematics) The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
6. (topology, of a set) The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
7. The act of shutting; a closing.the closure of a door, or of a chink
8. That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
• Alexander PopeWithout a seal, wafer, or any closure whatever.
9. (obsolete) That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.
• ShakespeareO thou bloody prison ...
  Within the guilty closure of thy walls
  Richard the Second here was hacked to death.
10. A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.

Hyponyms

• (device) clasp, hasp, latch, hook and eye

Troponyms

• computer science thunk

Anagrams

• colures