closure
UK/ˈkləʊ.ʒə(ɹ)//ˈkloʊ.ʒɚ/
closure noun: an event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
Noun
closure (countable and uncountable, plural closures)
- An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
- A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
- to find emotional closure
- In crowded rooms, and I keep lookin' for closeness / Maybe I'll never get closure2024, “Crowded Roomz”, in Silence is Loud, performed by Nia Archives
- Antonyms:
- uncertainty
- A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
- 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 4.4.2021, Luis Atencio, The Joy of JavaScript, New York: Manning Publications, →ISBN, page 82
- The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
- 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.1955 [Van Nostrand Reinhold], John L. Kelley, General Topology, 2017, Dover, page 42, The closure (𝔗-closure) of a subset A of a topological space (X,𝔗) is the intersection of the members of the...
- The act of shutting; a closing.
- the closure of a door, or of a chink
- 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.
- Those who have advocated the closure of the G.C. have so far failed to say by which alternative route this North-to-West traffic could be carried.1960 December, B. Perren, “The role of the Great Central—present and future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 765
- That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
- 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.1729 November 28, Alexander Pope, Letter to Jonathan Swift, 1824, The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Volume 17, 2nd Edition, page 284
- Synonyms:
- fastener
- That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.
- O thou bloody prison […] / Within the guilty closure of thy walls / Richard the Second here was hacked to death.c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
- A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.
- The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others based on various criteria.
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- The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.
- The comic book reader performs closure within each panel, between panels, and among panels.2009, Randy Duncan, Matthew J. Smith, The Power of Comics: History, Form and Culture, page 166
- The element of packaging that closes a container.
- The phenomenon whereby incomplete objects, shapes, and figures are perceived as complete.
Verb
closure (third-person singular simple present closures, present participle closuring, simple past and past participle closured)
- To end the parliamentary debate on (an issue) by closure.
- At any time they could have stopped discussion by closuring amendments and by closuring the clause under discussion.1893, The New Review, volume 9, page 119
closure meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
closure in Hindi
- closure, enclosure, encirclement
- घेर gher
- closure
- बंध bandh
closure in Tamil
- மூடல், முடித்தல், முடிவு, அருகாமை, அடைவுறுதல், நெருங்குதல்
closure in Urdu
- closure, restriction, stoppage
- بندش bandiś
- closure, blockage, obstruction, shutting off
- انسداد insidād
closure in Bengali
- অবসান, বন্ধ, সংবার, শেষ
More languagesFewer languages
- closure in Telugu
- మూసివేత
- closure in Malayalam
- സമാപനം samāpanaṁ, അടച്ചുപൂട്ടൽ aṭaccupūṭṭal, അടപ്പ് aṭappŭ
- closure in Kannada
- ಮುಗಿತ, ಮುಗಿತಾಯ, ಮುಕ್ತಾಯ, ಮುಚ್ಚುವಿಕೆ
- closure in Sanskrit
- संवृति saṃvṛti
- closure in Nepali
- बन्द banda
- closure in Indonesian
- penyelesaian
- closure in Persian
- بستار, بستماندیک
Examples of closure in a sentence
- It’s a ritual of national closure that allows people to put events in order and move on.2025 March 14, Gershom Gorenberg, “Netanyahu Doesn’t Want the Truth to Come Out”, in The Atlantic:
- Schrinner has since said the closures are needed to assess storm damage and to build the case for a major bridge restoration.2025 April 13, Joe Hinchliffe, “Sudden closure of Story Bridge to cyclists shows ‘car is still king in Brisbane’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
Synonyms of closure
Antonyms
Forms of closure
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | closures |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | closures |
| present participle | closuring |
| past participle | closured |
| past | closured |
Origin of closure
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.
Words formed from closure
- algebraic closure
- algebraic closure operator
- Clojure
- closure axiom
- closureless
- closure operator
- closure space
- closure system
- closure temperature
- deductive closure
- harp closure
- kangaroo closure
- Kleene closure
- microclosure
- misclosure
- nonclosure
- openture
- overclosure
- postclosure
- preclosure
- reclosure
- semiclosure
- subclosure
- topological closure operator
- transitive closure
Phrases with closure
Questions about closure
- What does closure mean?
- Closure means an event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
- What is closure in Hindi?
- Closure in Hindi is घेर (gher), बंध (bandh). See Closure meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use closure in a sentence?
- It’s a ritual of national closure that allows people to put events in order and move on.
- What part of speech is closure?
- Closure can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce closure?
- Closure is pronounced /ˈkləʊ.ʒə(ɹ)/ (UK).
- What is the plural of closure?
- The plural of closure is closures.
Words near closure in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: closure (page history and authors); घेर (Hindi) (page history and authors); closure (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); انسداد (Urdu) (page history and authors); closure (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); closure (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); closure (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); संवृति (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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