English Dictionary

closure

noun

An event or occurrence that signifies an ending. / A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.

The closure of the factory resulted in the loss of many jobs.

意味（1）

An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.

意味（2）

A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.

意味（3）

A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.

意味（4）

(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.

意味（5）

(mathematics) The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.

意味（6）

(topology, of a set) The smallest closed set which contains the given set.

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

意味（7）

The act of shutting; a closing.

the closure of a door, or of a chink

意味（8）

The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily.

The closure of Hammersmith Bridge means road traffic has to use Chiswick and Putney Bridges instead.

意味（9）

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

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.

意味（10）

(obsolete) That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.

O thou bloody prison […] / Within the guilty closure of thy walls / Richard the Second here was hacked to death.

意味（11）

(politics) A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.

意味（12）

(sociology) The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others from their group based on varied criteria. ᵂᵖ

意味（13）

The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.

The comic book reader performs closure within each panel, between panels, and among panels.