Definitions for closure
ˈkloʊ ʒərclo·sure

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. closing, closurenoun

   approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap

   "the ship's rapid rate of closing gave them little time to avoid a collision"

2. closure, cloture, gag rule, gag lawnoun

   a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body

3. closure, law of closurenoun

   a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric

4. settlement, resolution, closurenoun

   something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making

   "they finally reached a settlement with the union"; "they never did achieve a final resolution of their differences"; "he needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure"

5. blockage, block, closure, occlusion, stop, stoppagenoun

   an obstruction in a pipe or tube

   "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe"

6. blockage, closure, occlusionnoun

   the act of blocking

7. closure, closedown, closing, shutdownverb

   termination of operations

   "they regretted the closure of the day care center"

8. closure, clotureverb

   terminate debate by calling for a vote

   "debate was closured"; "cloture the discussion"

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1. Closurenoun

   (Math.) the property of being mathematically closed under some operation; -- said of sets.

2. Closurenoun

   (Math.) the intersection of all closed sets containing the given set.

3. Closurenoun

   (Psychol.) achievement of a sense of completeness and release from tension due to uncertainty; as, the closure afforded by the funeral of a loved one; also, the sense of completion thus achieved.

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. closurenoun

   An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.

2. closurenoun

   A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.

3. closurenoun

   A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.

4. closurenoun

   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. closurenoun

   The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.

6. closurenoun

   (of a set) The smallest closed set which contains the given set.

7. Etymology: From closure, from clausura, from claudere; see clausure and close.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Closurenoun

   Etymology: from close.

   1. The act of shutting up.

   The chink was carefully closed up: upon which closure there appeared not any change. Robert Boyle, Spring of the Air.

   2. That by which any thing is closed or shut.

   I admire your sending your last to me quite open, without a seal, wafer, or any closure whatever. Alexander Pope, to Swift.

   3. The parts inclosing; inclosure.

   O thou bloody prison!
   Within the guilty closure of thy walls
   Richard the second here was hack’d to death. William Shakespeare, Rich. III.

   4. Conclusion; end.

   We’ll hand in hand all headlong cast us down,
   And make a mutual closure of our house. William Shakespeare, Tit. Andron.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Closure

   Closure is the third and last single from alternative metal band Chevelles second album Wonder What's Next. It features a dark, melodic verse that carries into a similarly melodic chorus ending in heavy guitar chords. The following verse continues with added aggression into the second chorus and heavy bridge. A music video was produced for "Closure". It consists entirely of live performance footage. The song has been briefly covered by Breaking Benjamin in 2004 and 2005.

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1. closure

   In mathematics, closure refers to a property of some operations or functions by which the output or result always lies within the same set as the inputs. It describes the characteristic that an operation always returns a value that is also a member of the set the operation was performed on. In other words, a set is closed under an operation if the performance of that operation on members of the set always produces a member of the same set.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Closureverb

   the act of shutting; a closing; as, the closure of a chink

2. Closureverb

   that which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed

3. Closureverb

   that which incloses or confines; an inclosure

4. Closureverb

   a conclusion; an end

5. Closureverb

   a method of putting an end to debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body. It is similar in effect to the previous question. It was first introduced into the British House of Commons in 1882. The French word cloture was originally applied to this proceeding

6. Etymology: [Of. closure, L. clausura, fr. clauedere to shut. See Close, v. t.]

WikidataRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Closure

   A set has closure under an operation if performance of that operation on members of the set always produces a member of the same set. For example, the real numbers are closed under subtraction, but the natural numbers are not: 3 and 8 are both natural numbers, but the result of 3 − 8 is not a natural number. Another example is the set containing only the number zero, which is a closed set under multiplication. Similarly, a set is said to be closed under a collection of operations if it is closed under each of the operations individually. A set that is closed under an operation or collection of operations is said to satisfy a closure property. Often a closure property is introduced as an axiom, which is then usually called the axiom of closure. Note that modern set-theoretic definitions usually define operations as maps between sets, so adding closure to a structure as an axiom is superfluous; however in practice operations are often defined initially on a superset of the set in question and a closure proof is required to establish that the operation applied to pairs from that set only produces members of that set. For example, the set of even integers is closed under addition, but the set of odd integers is not.

The Standard Electrical DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Closure

   The closing or completion of a circuit by depressing a key or moving a switch.

Dictionary of Military and Associated TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. closure

   In transportation, the process of a unit arriving at a specified location. It begins when the first element arrives at a designated location, e.g., port of entry and/or port of departure, intermediate stops, or final destination, and ends when the last element does likewise. For the purposes of studies and command post exercises, a unit is considered essentially closed after 95 percent of its movement requirements for personnel and equipment are completed.

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1. closure

   Song lyrics by closure -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by closure on the Lyrics.com website.

2. Closure

   Closer vs. Closure -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Closer and Closure.

Etymology and OriginsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Closure

   A modern parliamentary term signifying the right of the Speaker to order the closing of a useless debate. The Closure was first applied 24th February 1884.

Matched Categories

1. • Gestalt Law Of Organization
   • Approach
   • Decision Making
   • End
   • Obstruction

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'closure' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4712

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'closure' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4381

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'closure' in Nouns Frequency: #1564

Anagrams for closure »

1. colures

How to pronounce closure?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of closure in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of closure in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of closure in a Sentence

1. Nicole Borthwick:

   I'm not happy with it, not happy at all, there is no closure, there is no grace. This community is broken, and is broken for a long time.

2. Ayodele Odusola:

   If you look at Guinea, almost 85 percent of the potato trade with Sierra Leone is done by women, but because of the border closure, this activity was completely paralyzed, in Liberia (the impact of Ebola) crudely translates to families not being able to put any food on the table for a minimum of 15 days every year for the next three years.

3. Debra Coffey from Fort Worth:

   They worked so hard and so long to bring us closure and bring this back to our family with dignity.

4. Andy Mitchelltold FOX4:

   You hope the family has closure.

5. Jefferson County:

   Our goal then and now has been to bring justice to Jeannie and her family, and while we would have preferred to place handcuffs on the suspect, we hope knowing who and where he is brings them some degree of closure. MISSOURI MAN INDICTED IN COLD CASE MURDER HE WAS QUIZZED ABOUT 31 YEARS AGO The sheriffs office said Donald Perea kidnapped, sexually assaulted and killed Moore near Denver when he was 23 years old. Donald Perea, Donald Perea, died on May 28, 2012, at the age of 54 due to health-related issues. Donald Perea kidnapped, sexually assaulted and killed Jeannie Moore near Denver in August 1981, according to officials. ( Jefferson County Sheriff's Office) Investigators said Donald Perea was out on bond for a separate sexual assault case when Jeannie Moores was killed ; Donald Perea was later convicted and was in prison from 1982 to 1985. Jeannie Moores left Jeannie Moores home for work at a gas station on Aug. 25, 1981 -- hitchhiking as Jeannie Moores typically would -- when Jeannie Moores was last seen getting into an older Ford Galaxy or LTD that was red, according to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. Five days later, Jeannie Moores body was found by picnickers in Genesee Park, south of Interstate 70. An autopsy found that Jeannie Moores was killed by several blows to the head, FOX31 reported. After Jeannie Moores murder went unsolved for decades, officials said the cold case was looked at in 2008 and again in May 2019, when new technology found a match. A public-private partnership that allowed forensic genealogy testing to be completed by United Data Connect Connect helped uncover a match. The information that led to Donald Perea was the same technology that helped crack the Golden State killer and other notable cold-case murders and rapes in 2018. How authorities linked Steven Perea to the case. ( Jefferson County Sheriff's Office) The DNA evidence from the crime scene was linked to a family member of Donald Perea this spring, and investigators were able to interview family members and get other samples to confirm that he was the suspect linked to the case. OREGON MAN ARRESTED IN 1978 COLD-CASE MURDER OF ALASKA TEEN, AUTHORITIES SAY Joan Busse, a genealogist with United Data Connect, told FOX31 Joan Busse put in 40 to 60 hours working backward through thousands of ancestors on public genealogy websites and DNA matches to identify a suspect. DNA can be uploaded to public genealogy websites such as GEDmatch.com through commercial kits where people can choose to opt-inif they want law enforcement to be able to access that information.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=closure
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=closure
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Closure
4. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=closure
5. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closure
6. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
7. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/closure
8. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=closure
9. ^ The Standard Electrical Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26535/pg26535-images.html#:~:text=closure
10. ^ Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
    https://www.tradoc.army.mil/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AD1029823-DOD-Dictionary-of-Military-and-Associated-Terms-2017.pdf
11. ^ Etymology and Origins
    https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/54657/pg54657-images.html#:~:text=closure