closure
the act of closing; the state of being closed.
a bringing to an end; conclusion.
something that closes or shuts.
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.
Origin of closure
1Other words from closure
- non·clo·sure, noun
- pre·clo·sure, noun
Words Nearby closure
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How to use closure in a sentence
He staged a protest against beach closures on the Fourth of July.
Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider does not approve of anti-maskers using ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’ | radmarya | September 17, 2020 | FortuneIt can hold 12 letter size hanging folders, and has a latchable closure with a built in handle.
Great filing cabinets for your home office | PopSci Commerce Team | September 17, 2020 | Popular-ScienceRounded corners help keep the book from wear and tear and the elastic closure keeps pages protected.
Notable notebooks for writing and drawing | PopSci Commerce Team | September 17, 2020 | Popular-ScienceTo better understand what happened in the Patrick Henry cheer program, you have to go back to March when the closures first occurred.
School Sports Became ‘Clubs’ Amid the Pandemic – Now Two Coaches Are Out | Ashly McGlone | September 17, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoAmid shutdowns and mandatory store closures, even e-commerce sales haven’t been enough to save some of the biggest brands in the businesses from declaring bankruptcy in the months since the pandemic began.
What retailers should expect going into a holiday season during a pandemic | Rachel King | September 16, 2020 | Fortune
It was definitely an anti-closure ending, and if the character—and show—has life behind it, it leaves the door wide open.
Michael C. Hall on Going Drag for ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ and Exorcising ‘Dexter’ | Marlow Stern | December 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMoscow officials insist that the hospitals listed for closure lacked professional services and often stayed half empty.
The closure of transport was a perfect example of the far-reaching consequences of clashes in the disputed capital.
“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 | THE DAILY BEASTWriting the book has given Cumming “some sense of closure,” a statement of a “more holistic version of me.”
He zipped open the closure of his helmet and tilted the helmet back.
The Worshippers | Damon Francis KnightIn this way does a lazy world consign discussion to silence with the cynical closure.
Lord Ormont and his Aminta, Complete | George MeredithThe interval between the closure and the opening may be noticeable, in which case we call the consonant double.
The Sounds of Spoken English | Walter RippmannSlight variations in the place of closure due to the place of articulation of neighbouring sounds in a word are inevitable.
The Sounds of Spoken English | Walter Rippmannclosure of the glottis by the inflation of the ventricles imposes no strain on the vocal cords.
The Psychology of Singing | David C. Taylor
British Dictionary definitions for closure
/ (ˈkləʊʒə) /
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
(tr) (in a deliberative body) to end (debate) by closure
Origin of closure
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