closure

[ kloh-zher ]

/ ˈkloʊ ʒər /

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noun

the act of closing; the state of being closed.

a bringing to an end; conclusion.

something that closes or shuts.

closer¹(def 2).

an architectural screen or parapet, especially one standing free between columns or piers.

Phonetics. an occlusion of the vocal tract as an articulatory feature of a particular speech sound. Compare constriction(def 5).

Parliamentary Procedure. a cloture.

Surveying. completion of a closed traverse in such a way that the point of origin and the endpoint coincide within an acceptably small margin of error. Compare error of closure.

Mathematics.

the property of being closed with respect to a particular operation.
the intersection of all closed sets that contain a given set.

Psychology.

the tendency to see an entire figure even though the picture of it is incomplete, based primarily on the viewer's past experience.
a sense of psychological certainty or completeness: a need for closure.

Obsolete. something that encloses or shuts in; enclosure.

verb (used with or without object), clo·sured, clo·sur·ing.

Parliamentary Procedure. to cloture.

Origin of closure

1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French < Latin clausūra. See close, -ure

OTHER WORDS FROM closure

non·clo·sure, noun pre·clo·sure, noun

Words nearby closure

clostridium histolyticum, clostridium novyi, clostridium parabotulinum, clostridium perfringens, clostridium tetani, closure, closure principle, clot, cloth, cloth cap, cloth of gold

Example sentences from the Web for closure

Moscow officials insist that the hospitals listed for closure lacked professional services and often stayed half empty.

Putin’s Health Care Disaster |Anna Nemtsova |November 30, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The closure of transport was a perfect example of the far-reaching consequences of clashes in the disputed capital.

The Radicals Who Slaughtered a Synagogue |Creede Newton |November 19, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
“Let us think of his family and his parents and hopefully today they have achieved some measure of closure,” Johnson added.

Money, Murder, and Adoption: The Wild Trial of the Polo King |Jacqui Goddard |October 28, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Writing the book has given Cumming “some sense of closure,” a statement of a “more holistic version of me.”

Alan Cumming: The Truth About My Father |Tim Teeman |October 14, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

Last April, the Memorial Anti-Discrimination Center in St. Petersburg announced its closure under pressure from huge fines.

The Kremlin’s Plan to Erase Russia’s Memory and Its Conscience |Anna Nemtsova |October 13, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The closure of the tubes is not the only result that may follow the course of this disease.

Herself |E. B. Lowry
What is needed here is the closure of the fatal houses until made fit for human habitation.

The Sanitary Evolution of London |Henry Lorenzo Jephson
The closure of the wound causes an increase in the number of epithelial rows over the defect.

The Organism as a Whole |Jacques Loeb
The lower record exhibits the movement of the flower, up-curve representing the opening, and down-curve the closure of the flower.

Life Movements in Plants, Volume II, 1919 |Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose
The method of its closure was exceedingly simple and evident.

The Origin of Vertebrates |Walter Holbrook Gaskell

British Dictionary definitions for closure

closure

/ (ˈkləʊʒə) /

noun

the act of closing or the state of being closed

an end or conclusion

something that closes or shuts, such as a cap or seal for a container

(in a deliberative body) a procedure by which debate may be halted and an immediate vote taken See also cloture, guillotine, gag rule

mainly US

the resolution of a significant event or relationship in a person's life
a sense of contentment experienced after such a resolution

geology the vertical distance between the crest of an anticline and the lowest contour that surrounds it

phonetics the obstruction of the breath stream at some point along the vocal tract, such as the complete occlusion preliminary to the articulation of a stop

logic

the closed sentence formed from a given open sentence by prefixing universal or existential quantifiers to bind all its free variables
the process of forming such a closed sentence

maths

the smallest closed set containing a given set
the operation of forming such a set

psychol the tendency, first noted by Gestalt psychologists, to see an incomplete figure like a circle with a gap in it as more complete than it is

verb

(tr) (in a deliberative body) to end (debate) by closure

Word Origin for closure

C14: from Old French, from Late Latin clausūra bar, from Latin claudere to close

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verb (used with or without object), clo·sured, clo·sur·ing.

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