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Noun
- An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
- {{lb|en|figurative}} A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional [[conclusion]], usually to a difficult period.
- A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
- {{senseid|en|programming}} {{lb|en|programming}} 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]].
- {{lb|en|mathematics}} The [[smallest]] [[set]] that both includes a given [[subset]] and possesses some given [[property]].
- {{lb|en|topology|of a set}} The smallest [[closed set]] which contains the given set.
- The act of shutting; a closing.
- The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily.
- That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
- {{lb|en|obsolete}} That which [[enclose]]s or [[confine]]s; an [[enclosure]].
- {{lb|en|politics}} A method of ending a [[parliamentary]] [[debate]] and securing an immediate [[vote]] upon a [[measure]] before a [[legislative]] body.
- {{lb|en|sociology}} The [[phenomenon]] by which a [[group]] maintains its [[resource]]s by the [[exclusion]] of others based on various [[criteria]].
Verb
- {{lb|en|transitive|politics}} To end the parliamentary debate on (an issue) by [[#Noun|closure]].
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