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.

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.]

FreebaseRate 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

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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

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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. Barry Loudermilk:

   Coming back gives closure.

2. Jonathan Veal:

   But then, Jonathan Veal and another friend were like,' OK, what do we do ?' We could find a level of closure but also, we could keep the legacy of our friend, so that's how 88 C.H.U.M.P. came about.

3. David Carlson:

   You were free to do these acts...whether through misguided political correctness or people who do not believe in laws or borders, one thing I can do with the sentence is show that the laws we believe in here, maybe this won’t happen again, maybe that’s a little bit of closure.

4. Curtis Millner:

   I was traumatized by this incident, i'm looking for closure.

5. Mark Molinari:

   Criminal mischief, swastikas, property damage are no different to us than robberies and assaults. They're all victimizing an entire community -- sometimes a world-wide community -- so not being able to get closure for that community is difficult for all of us here, our cases don't just victimize the victim. They victimize a group.

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