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      closure
      noun
      An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
      (figurative) A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
      The act of shutting; a closing.
      The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily.
      A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
      That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
      (mathematics) The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
      (topology, of a set) The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
      (programming) 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.
      (politics) A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.
      (food packaging industry) The element of packaging that closes a container.
      (sociology) The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others based on various criteria. ᵂᵖ
      (comics) The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.
      (obsolete) That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.
      verb
      (transitive, politics) To end the parliamentary debate on (an issue) by closure.
      Roots
      claudoclos- · Latin · close, shut
      Synonyms for closure
      closingnblockagenocclusionnterminationncompletionnendingn
      Words related to closure
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      Where does closure come from?

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