noun Download 🔗Share An event or occurrence that signifies an ending. Examples : "The series of town hall meetings provided families with closures after the tragic factory fire. " event outcome Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period. Examples : "After years of therapy, she finally found closures about her difficult childhood. " mind emotion achievement period Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing. Examples : "The lunchboxes had simple, snap-lock closures to keep the sandwiches fresh. " device item machine Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share 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. Examples : "The JavaScript code used closures to remember the student's name even after the function that created it had finished running. " computing technical function language Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property. Examples : "After adding new edges to the graph connecting all indirectly related people, the set of all these connections, including the original friends and their friends' friends, are the closures needed to represent everyone reachable from each other. " math logic theory Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (of a set) The smallest closed set which contains the given set. Examples : "Sentence: "To understand the closures of all possible outcomes when repeatedly flipping a coin, you need to consider what happens if you keep flipping the coin indefinitely." " math theory Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The act of shutting; a closing. Examples : "the closure of a door, or of a chink" action event Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed. Examples : "The shop's closures for renovations meant we couldn't buy groceries. " part structure Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share That which encloses or confines; an enclosure. Examples : "The closures on the lunchboxes kept the food fresh and prevented spills. " structure building area Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body. Examples : "Facing a filibuster and looming deadlines, the Senate invoked closures to finally vote on the important bill. " politics government law Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels. Examples : "The comic book's panels showed the characters arguing, then walking away, and then the reader had to use closures to figure out what happened next. " art media story communication Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
