closure

Meaning

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. 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. 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. The act of shutting; a closing.
8. The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily.
9. That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
10. (obsolete) That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.
11. A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.
12. The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others from their group based on varied criteria. ᵂᵖ
13. The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.
14. The element of packaging that closes a container.

Synonyms

closing

cloture

shutdown

blockage

occlusion

closedown

resolution

conclusion

block

stoppage

stop

🛑

termination

settlement

shutting

close

finish

decision

gag rule

lockout

gag law

law of closure

entrapment

final stage

finding

gather

judgement

judgment

make

mop up

pinning

solution

solvent

trap

🪤

unsociable

No Through Road

closing down

addiction

landing approach

oil trap

abolition

action

adherence

agreement

approach

approaching

blind alley

breakup

cessation

clogging

close-up

consummation

cover

cul-de-sac

dam

dead end

deciding

determination

end

🔚

ending

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkləʊ.ʒə(ɹ)/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: closure

In summary

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.