Dictionary Definition
closure
Noun
1 approaching a particular destination; a coming
closer; a narrowing of a gap; "the ship's rapid rate of closing
gave them little time to avoid a collision" [syn: closing]
3 a Gestalt principle of organization holding
that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as
complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric
stimuli as symmetric [syn: law of
closure]
4 something settled or resolved; the outcome of
decision making; "the finally reached a settlement with the union";
"they never did achieve a final resolution of their differences";
"he needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure"
[syn: settlement,
resolution]
5 an obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to
call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe" [syn:
blockage, block, occlusion, stop, stoppage]
7 termination of operations; "they regretted the
closure of the day care center" [syn: closedown, closing, shutdown] v : terminate debate
by calling for a vote; "debate was closured"; "cloture the
discussion" [syn: cloture]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- AHD: klō'zhûr
Noun
- an event or occurrence that signifies an ending
- a feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period
- 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
- the smallest object that both includes the object as a subset and possesses some given property
Troponyms
- (computer science) thunk
See also
Translations
event signifying an ending
- Dutch: beëindiging, afsluiting, sluiting
- Finnish: sulkeminen, lopettaminen
- Nepali: ; banda
- Portuguese: encerramento , fecho , término
- Swedish: avslutning , avrundning
feeling of completeness
- Portuguese: terminado, acabado
computing
- French: fermeture
mathematical set
- Czech: uzávěr
- Danish: afslutning
- French: fermeture
- Hungarian: lezárt
- Polish: domknięcie
- Swedish: hölje
Extensive Definition
Closure may refer to:
- In mathematics
- Closure (mathematics), the smallest object that both includes the object as a subset and possesses some given property
- Algebraic closure
- Closure (logic)
- Closure (topology), the set of all points intuitively "close to" a given set
- Kuratowski closure axioms
- Closure (computer science), an abstraction binding a function to its scope
- Closure (philosophy), a philosophical description of the world put forward by Hilary Lawson
- Closure (psychology), the state of experiencing an emotional conclusion to a difficult life event, or, a point in the development of an artifact where social understanding and interpretation reaches consensus
- Closure (psychology, visual perception), the fact that peripheral vision tends to compress vision and to allow completion of details by already stored inner images
- Closure (visual arts), the process by which the mind fills in missing details of a framed object, as in the panels of a comic or a cinema/television screen
- Deductive closure, the application of the mathematical concept to formal logic
- Cloture, a motion in parliamentary procedure to bring debate to a quick end
- Law of Closure, a principle in Gestalt psychology
- Closure (law), an act of closing a public trial
- a stage in the social construction of technology
- Closure (statistical mechanics), a reduction from distribution function to fluid equations
- Poetic closure
- Transitive closure
In film:
- Straightheads, a movie staring Gillian Anderson that was released in the U.S. under the title Closure.
In music:
- Closure (video), a Nine Inch Nails video set
- Closure (band), a Canadian rock band
- "Closure" (Chevelle song), a song by Chevelle from their album Wonder What's Next
- "Closure", a song by Hood from their album Outside Closer
- "Closure", a song by Opeth from their album Damnation
- "Closure", a song by Aly & AJ from their album Insomniatic
- Resolution (music), in music theory
closure in French: Fermeture
closure in Japanese: 閉包
closure in Korean: 닫힘
closure in Russian: Замыкание
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accomplishment, ankle, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, articulation, blockage, blocking, boundary, butt, cease, cervix, cessation, check, clinch, clogging, close, closing, closing up, completion, conclusion, connecting link,
connecting rod, connection, constriction, consummation, coupling, cramp, culmination, delay, desistance, detainment, detention, dovetail, elbow, embrace, end, ending, fixation, foot-dragging,
fulfillment, gliding
joint, hampering,
hindering, hindrance, hinge, hinged joint, hip, holdback, holdup, impediment, inhibition, interface, interference, interruption, join, joining, joint, juncture, knee, knuckle, let, link, miter, mortise, neck, negativism, nuisance value,
obstruction,
obstructionism,
occlusion, opposition, perfection, pivot, pivot joint, rabbet, realization, repression, resistance, restraint, restriction, retardation, retardment, scarf, seam, setback, shoulder, squeeze, stitch, stop, stranglehold, stricture, suppression, suture, symphysis, termination, tie rod,
toggle, toggle joint,
topping-off, union,
weld, wrist