Definition of closure

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closure
noun

an event or occurence that signifies an ending
a feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period
(computing): an abstraction that represents a function within an environment, a context consisting of the variables that are both bound variable, bound at a particular time during the execution of the program and that are within the function's scope
(mathematics): the smallest object that both includes the object as a subset and possesses some given property

Etymology: From closure, from clausura.

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