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Closure

Noun

Definitions

1.NounAn event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
2.NounA feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
"to find emotional closure"
3.NounA device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
4.NounAn 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.NounThe smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
6.NounThe smallest closed set which contains the given set.
7.NounThe act of shutting; a closing.
"the closure of a door, or of a chink"
8.NounThe 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."
9.NounThat which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
10.NounThat which encloses or confines; an enclosure.
11.NounA method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.
12.NounThe phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others based on various criteria.
13.NounThe process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.
14.NounThe element of packaging that closes a container.
15.VerbTo end the parliamentary debate on (an issue) by closure.
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