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      closed
      adjective
      Not available for operation, participation, interaction, etc.
      (of a store or business) Not operating or conducting trade.
      Not allowing entrance to visitors or the public.
      Not available for use or operation.
      Physically obstructed, sealed, etc.
      Made impassable.
      Sealed or covered.
      (engineering, gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) In a position preventing fluid from flowing.
      Physically drawn together, folded or contracted.
      (computing, of a file, document, etc.) Not in current use; not connected to as a resource.
      Of a competition or tournament: with the competitors restricted to a specific group, such as professionals, amateurs, members or residents.
      Settled; decided or determined; withdrawn from consideration.
      Completed, finalised.
      (electricity, of a switch or circuit breaker) In a position allowing electricity to flow.
      Not receptive.
      Not public.
      Having one end joined to the other, forming a completed loop.
      (graph theory, of a walk) Whose first and last vertices are the same, forming a closed loop.
      (topology, of a set) Having an open complement.
      (mathematics, of a set) Such that its image under the specified operation is contained in it.
      (mathematics, logic, of a formula) Lacking a free variable.
      (geometry, of a curve) Lacking endpoints. For parametric curves, with the same image for the ends of the domain.
      (geometry, of a surface) Lacking a boundary.
      (phonology) Formed by closing the mouth and nose passages completely, like the consonants /t/, /d/, and /p/.
      (phonology) Having the sound cut off sharply by a following consonant, like the /ɪ/ in pin.
      (of a multi-word compound) Having component words joined together without spaces or hyphens; for example, timeslot as opposed to time slot or time-slot.
      (heraldry) Synonym of close.
      (especially sports) Of a club, bat or other hitting implement; angled downwards and/or (for a right-hander) anticlockwise of straight.
      Roots
      claudoclos- · Latin · close, shut
      Synonyms for closed
      shutvunopenedadjconstrictedadjrestrictedadjunreceptiveadjhermeticadj
      Words related to closed
      stopperedadjshutteredadjsquinchedadjunclosedclosesvopenedadjreopenedvclosingnunconstrictedadjopensvreopeningvclosurenopenestadjlockedvclosableadjunsealedadjsealedadjreopensvopeningnpatulousadjpatulousnessnwidemouthedshuttersndoorsnunenclosedadjopeblockedadjajaradjpadlockedvbarricadedadj

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