Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word CLOSURE

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Definitions of CLOSURE

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. The act of shutting; a closing.
5. That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
6. The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.
7. The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily.
8. (programming) 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.
9. (mathematics) The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
10. (topology, of a set) The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
11. (obsolete) That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.
12. (politics) A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.
13. (sociology) The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others from their group based on varied criteria. ^Wp

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Examples of Using CLOSURE in a Sentence

• In mathematics, particularly abstract algebra, an algebraic closure of a field K is an algebraic extension of K that is algebraically closed.
• In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of breath that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents.
• In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract, except for the h sound, which is pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract.
• In reading, the delay of meaning creates a tension that is released when the word or phrase that completes the syntax is encountered (called the rejet); In spite of the apparent contradiction between rhyme, which heightens closure, and enjambment, which delays it, the technique is compatible with rhymed verse.
• The concept of idempotence arises in a number of places in abstract algebra (in particular, in the theory of projectors and closure operators) and functional programming (in which it is connected to the property of referential transparency).
• In mathematical logic and computer science, the Kleene star (or Kleene operator or Kleene closure) is a unary operation, either on sets of strings or on sets of symbols or characters.
• Post offices that are owned by Postbank and TNT Post have been earmarked for closure between 2008 and 2013.
• Addition and subtraction of even numbers preserves evenness, and multiplying an even number by any integer (even or odd) results in an even number; these closure and absorption properties are the defining properties of an ideal.
• A number of mathematical concepts are named after him: Kleene hierarchy, Kleene algebra, the Kleene star (Kleene closure), Kleene's recursion theorem and the Kleene fixed-point theorem.
• In 1956, regional tensions over the Straits of Tiran (giving access to Eilat, a port on the southeast tip of Israel) escalated in what became known as the Suez Crisis, when Israel invaded Egypt over the Egyptian closure of maritime passageways to Israeli shipping, ultimately resulting in the re-opening of the Straits of Tiran to Israel as well as the deployment of the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) along the Egypt–Israel border.
• This contrasts with consonants, such as the English "sh" , which have a constriction or closure at some point along the vocal tract.
• In geometry, the convex hull, convex envelope or convex closure of a shape is the smallest convex set that contains it.
• In communications systems, a device that can sense an abnormal condition within the system and provide a signal indicating the presence or nature of the abnormality to either a local or remote alarm indicator, and (b) may detect events ranging from a simple contact opening or closure to a time-phased automatic shutdown and restart cycle.
• Note that these properties are also satisfied if "closure", "superset", "intersection", "contains/containing", "smallest" and "closed" are replaced by "interior", "subset", "union", "contained in", "largest", and "open".
• Some of the notable mathematical concepts bearing Kuratowski's name include Kuratowski's theorem, Kuratowski closure axioms, Kuratowski-Zorn lemma and Kuratowski's intersection theorem.
• In mathematics, a subset of a topological space is called nowhere dense or rare if its closure has empty interior.
• A usage of the law occurred at the outbreak of World War I in 1914 when the first great financial panic of the 20th century befell the world, necessitating the closure of the New York Stock Exchange.
• Moreover, as stated in the lemma below, the closed linear span is indeed the closure of the linear span.
• As part of a military reduction program under the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process from 1988, Congress voted to end the Presidio's status as an active military installation of the U.
• In programming languages, a closure, also lexical closure or function closure, is a technique for implementing lexically scoped name binding in a language with first-class functions.
• The name cloture remains in the United States; in Commonwealth countries it is usually closure or, informally, guillotine; in the United Kingdom closure and guillotine are distinct motions.
• Following World War II, Ford formed the Lincoln-Mercury Division, pairing Lincoln with its mid-range Mercury brand; the pairing lasted through the 2010 closure of Mercury.
• Hausdorff also introduced the term residue, which is defined as the intersection of a set with the closure of the border of its complement.
• The United Nations Security Council called upon the tribunal to finish its work by 31 December 2014 to prepare for its closure and transfer of its responsibilities to the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT or Mechanism) which had begun functioning for the ICTR branch on 1 July 2012.
• A consortium led by Iberia took control of the airline in 1990, and Grupo Marsans acquired the company and its subsidiaries in 2001, following a period of severe financial difficulties that put the airline on the brink of closure.

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