Closure

English

Etymology

From Template:Inh, from Template:Der, from Template:Der, from Template:Der; see Template:Doublet (etymological doublets) and close.

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Noun

1. An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
2. A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
3. A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
4. Template:Senseid Template:Lb 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.
5. Template:Lb The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
6. Template:Lb The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
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     The closure ($𝔗$-closure) of a subset A of a topological space $(X,𝔗)$ is the intersection of the members of the family of all closed sets containing A.Template:...

     7 THEOREM The closure of any set is the union of the set and the set of its accumulation points.

7. The act of shutting; a closing.

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8. The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily.

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9. That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.

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   • 1729 November 28, Template:W, Letter to Template:W, 1824, The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Volume 17, 2nd Edition, page 284,

     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.

10. Template:Lb That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.
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11. Template:Lb A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.
12. Template:Lb The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others based on various criteria. ^Template:W
13. The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.
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14. Template:Senseid Template:Lb The element of packaging that closes a container.

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Verb

1. Template:Lb To end the parliamentary debate on (an issue) by closure.
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