closure
/ˈkloʊ.ʒɚ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.11 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
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.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "to find emotional closure"
- "In crowded rooms, and I keep lookin' for closeness / Maybe I'll never get closure"
- "In Israel, a state commission of inquiry is not merely a judicial instrument or a means of settling facts. It’s a ritual of national closure that allows people to put events in order and move on."
- "Instead, make f and g input arguments, and use the closure around the inner function so that this code works with any two functions that you provide. Closures are important features that work amazingly well with higher-order functions; I’ll review them in section 4.4."
- "7 THEOREM The closure of any set is the union of the set and the set of its accumulation points."
- "the closure of a door, or of a chink"
Etymology
From Middle English closure, from Old French closure, from Late Latin clausura, from Latin claudere (“to close”); see clausure and cloture (etymological doublets) and close.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: closure, clausura, claudere
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkloʊ.ʒɚ/
- British English: /ˈkləʊ.ʒə(ɹ)/