Closure

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)  (of a set) The smallest closed set which contains the given set.

Etymology
From closure, from  clausura, from claudere:; see clausure and close.

Hyponyms

 * clasp, hasp, latch, hook and eye

Troponyms

 * thunk

Thesaurus
accomplishment, ankle, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, articulation, blockage, blocking, boundary, butt, cease, cervix, cessation, check, clinch, clogging, close, closing, closing up, completion, conclusion, connecting link, connecting rod, connection, constriction, consummation, coupling, cramp, culmination, delay, desistance, detainment, detention, dovetail, elbow, embrace, end, ending, fixation, foot-dragging, fulfillment, gliding joint, hampering, hindering, hindrance, hinge, hinged joint, hip, holdback, holdup, impediment, inhibition, interface, interference, interruption, join, joining, joint, juncture, knee, knuckle, let, link, miter, mortise, neck, negativism, nuisance value, obstruction, obstructionism, occlusion, opposition, perfection, pivot, pivot joint, rabbet, realization, repression, resistance, restraint, restriction, retardation, retardment, scarf, seam, setback, shoulder, squeeze, stitch, stop, stranglehold, stricture, suppression, suture, symphysis, termination, tie rod, toggle, toggle joint, topping-off, union, weld, wrist

Translations

 * Bulgarian: закриване
 * Dutch: beëindiging, afsluiting, sluiting
 * Finnish: sulkeminen, lopettaminen


 * Nepali: ; banda
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Swedish: avslutning, avrundning


 * Portuguese: ,


 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Japanese: 関数閉包, クロージャ
 * Persian: بستار


 * Czech:
 * Danish: afslutning
 * French:
 * Hungarian: lezárt


 * Japanese: 閉包, 閉苞
 * Polish:
 * Swedish:

Anagrams

 * colures