closure

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   termination of operations

   they regretted the closure of the day care center

2. 2
   verb

   to terminate debate by calling for a vote

   The debate was closured by the opposition.

3. 3
   noun

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

   to find emotional closure

4. 4
   noun

   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.

   Instead, make f and g input arguments, and use the closure around the inner function so that this code works with any two functions that you provide. Closures are important features that work amazingly well with higher-order functions; I’ll review them in section 4.4.

5. 5
   noun

   The smallest closed set which contains the given set.

   7 THEOREM The closure of any set is the union of the set and the set of its accumulation points.

6. 6
   noun

   The act of shutting; a closing.

   the closure of a door, or of a chink

7. 7
   noun

   The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily.

   The closure of Hammersmith Bridge means road traffic has to use Chiswick and Putney Bridges instead.

8. 8
   noun

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

   1729 November 28, Alexander Pope, Letter to Jonathan Swift, 1824, The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Volume 17, 2nd Edition, page 284, I admire on this consideration your sending your last to me quite open, without a seal, wafer, or any closure whatever, manifesting the utter openness of the writer.

Etymology

From Middle English closure, from Old French closure, from Late Latin clausura, from Latin claudere (“to close”); see clausure and cloture (etymological doublets) and close.