closure

Etymology
From, from , from , from ; see (etymological doublets) and close.

Noun

 * 1) An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
 * 2) A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
 * 3) A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
 * 4)   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.
 * 5)  The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
 * 6)  The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
 * 7) * 1955 [Van Nostrand Reinhold],, General Topology, 2017, Dover, page 42,
 * The closure ($$\mathfrak{T}$$-closure) of a subset A of a topological space $$(X,\mathfrak{T})$$ is the intersection of the members of the family of all closed sets containing A.
 * 7 THEOREM The closure of any set is the union of the set and the set of its accumulation points.
 * 1) The act of shutting; a closing.
 * 2) The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily.
 * 3) That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
 * 4) * 1729 November 28,, Letter to , 1824, The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Volume 17, 2nd Edition, page 284,
 * I admire on this consideration your sending your last to me quite open, without a seal, wafer, or any closure whatever, manifesting the utter openness of the writer.
 * 1)  That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.
 * 2)  A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.
 * 3)  The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others from their group based on varied criteria. undefined
 * 4) The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.
 * 5)   The element of packaging that closes a container.
 * 1)  A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.
 * 2)  The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others from their group based on varied criteria. undefined
 * 3) The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.
 * 4)   The element of packaging that closes a container.
 * 1)   The element of packaging that closes a container.
 * 1)   The element of packaging that closes a container.

Troponyms

 * thunk

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: clausura
 * Czech: uzavření, uzavírka
 * Dutch:, ,
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 * Malayalam:, അടച്ചുപൂട്ടൽ
 * Nepali: banda
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 * Scottish Gaelic: dùnadh
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 * Finnish: ,
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 * Catalan: clausura
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: sulkeuma
 * French:
 * German: Closure, Funktionsabschluss
 * Icelandic:
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 * Japanese: 関数閉包, クロージャ
 * Persian: ,
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 * Bulgarian:
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 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: uzávěr
 * Danish:
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 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: iamh
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 閉苞
 * Polish: domknięcie
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 * Icelandic: lokaður hjúpur
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 * German:, Verschließung