closure
noun
- a closing or being closed
- a finish; end; conclusion
- the feeling that one's prolonged state of emotional distress over some traumatic experience or situation has finally ended
- anything that closes or shuts
- cloture
- Geol. the vertical distance between the highest point of an anticlinal structure and the lowest contour that encircles it
- Math. the property of a set in which an operation on pairs of its elements always produces an element of the set
- Phonet. a blocking of the air stream at some point in the oral cavity
transitive verb closured, closuring
See closure in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(klōˈzhər)
noun- The act of closing or the state of being closed: closure of an incision.
- Something that closes or shuts.
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.
- See cloture.
- The property of being mathematically closed.
transitive verb clo·sured,
clo·sur·ing,
clo·sures To cloture (a debate).
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