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Closure

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Noun

1. closing, closure

approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap

Example Sentences:
'the ship's rapid rate of closing gave them little time to avoid a collision'

2. closure, cloture, gag law, gag rule

a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body

3. closure, law of closure

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

4. closure, resolution, settlement

something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making

Example Sentences:
'they 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'

5. block, blockage, closure, occlusion, stop, stoppage

an obstruction in a pipe or tube

Example Sentences:
'we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe'

6. blockage, closure, occlusion

the act of blocking

7. closedown, closing, closure, shutdown

termination of operations

Example Sentences:
'they regretted the closure of the day care center'

Verb

8. closure, cloture

terminate debate by calling for a vote

Example Sentences:
'debate was closured'
'cloture the discussion'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Closure

see synonyms of closure
noun
1. 
the act of closing or the state of being closed
2. 
an end or conclusion
3. 
something that closes or shuts, such as a cap or seal for a container
4. 
(in a deliberative body) a procedure by which debate may be halted and an immediate vote taken
See also cloture, guillotine, gag rule
5. mainly US
a. 
the resolution of a significant event or relationship in a person's life
b. 
a sense of contentment experienced after such a resolution
6. geology
the vertical distance between the crest of an anticline and the lowest contour that surrounds it
7. phonetics
the obstruction of the breath stream at some point along the vocal tract, such as the complete occlusion preliminary to the articulation of a stop
8. logic
a. 
the closed sentence formed from a given open sentence by prefixing universal or existential quantifiers to bind all its free variables
b. 
the process of forming such a closed sentence
9. mathematics
a. 
the smallest closed set containing a given set
b. 
the operation of forming such a set
10. psychology
the tendency, first noted by Gestalt psychologists, to see an incomplete figure like a circle with a gap in it as more complete than it is
verb
11. (transitive)
(in a deliberative body) to end (debate) by closure

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Closure

see synonyms of closure
noun
1. 
a closing or being closed
2. 
a finish; end; conclusion
3. 
the feeling that one's prolonged state of emotional distress over some traumatic experience or situation has finally ended
4. 
anything that closes or shuts
5. 
cloture
6.  Geology
the vertical distance between the highest point of an anticlinal structure and the lowest contour that encircles it
7.  Ancient Mathematics
the property of a set in which an operation on pairs of its elements always produces an element of the set
8.  Phonetics
a blocking of the air stream at some point in the oral cavity
verb transitiveWord forms: ˈclosured or ˈclosuring
9. 
cloture

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Closure

see synonyms of closure
n.
1. The act of closing or the state of being closed: closure of an incision.
2. Something that closes or shuts.
3.
a. A bringing to an end; a conclusion: finally brought the project to closure.
b. A feeling of finality or resolution, especially after a traumatic experience: sought closure in returning to the scene of the accident.
4. See cloture.
5. The property of being mathematically closed.
tr.v. clo·sured, clo·sur·ing, clo·sures
To cloture (a debate).

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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