closures

Noun

closure (countable and uncountable, plural closures)

1. An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
2. (figuratively) A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
   • to find emotional closure

   Antonyms:

   uncertainty

3. A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
4. 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
5. The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
6. 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...

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