Closure
WordNet
noun
(1) Termination of operations
"They regretted the closure of the day care center"
(2) 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"
(3) The act of blocking
(4) An obstruction in a pipe or tube
"We had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe"
(5) 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"
(6) 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
(7) A rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body
verb
(8) Terminate debate by calling for a vote
"Debate was closured"
"Cloture the discussion"
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Etymology
From closure, from clausura, from ; see clausure and close.
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