Complete Definition of "closure"

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English

Pronunciation
AHD: kl�'zhûr

Etymology
From OF. closure, from L. clausura.

Noun
en-noun

  1. an event or occurence that signifies an ending
  2. a feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period
  3. 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
  4. mathematics: the smallest object that both includes the object as a subset and possesses some given property

Troponyms
(computing) thunk

See also
cloture

Translations
trans-top|event signifying an ending
Finnish: sulkeminen, lopettaminen
Portuguese: encerramento m, fecho m, término m
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Swedish: avslutning c, avrundning c
Nepali; banda
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trans-top|feeling of completeness
Portuguese: terminado, acabado
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trans-top|computing
French: fermeture
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trans-top|mathematical set
Czech: uzáv�r m
French: fermeture
Hungarian: lezárt
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Swedish: hölje n
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