English

Noun

closure ‎(plural closures)

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. (programming) 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 Pope

     Without a seal, wafer, or any closure whatever.

9. (obsolete) That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.
   • Shakespeare

     O 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

• (computing): function closure, lexical closure
• (device): clasp, hasp, latch, hook and eye

Troponyms

• (computer science) thunk

See also

• cloture

Translations

Anagrams

• colures