- the act of closing; the state of being closed.
- a bringing to an end; conclusion.
- something that closes or shuts.
- closer1 (def. 5).
- an architectural screen or parapet, especially one standing free between columns or piers.
- an occlusion of the vocal tract as an articulatory feature of a particular speech sound.
- a cloture.
- completion of a closed traverse in such a way that the point of origin and the endpoint coincide within an acceptably small margin of error.
- Mathematics.
- the property of being closed with respect to a particular operation.
- the intersection of all closed sets that contain a given set.
- Psychology.
- the tendency to see an entire figure even though the picture of it is incomplete, based primarily on the viewer's past experience.
- a sense of psychological certainty or completeness: a need for closure.
- something that encloses or shuts in; enclosure.
- to cloture.
- the act of closing or the state of being closed
- an end or conclusion
- something that closes or shuts, such as a cap or seal for a container
- (in a deliberative body) a procedure by which debate may be halted and an immediate vote taken
- mainly US
- the resolution of a significant event or relationship in a person's life
- a sense of contentment experienced after such a resolution
- the vertical distance between the crest of an anticline and the lowest contour that surrounds it
- the obstruction of the breath stream at some point along the vocal tract, such as the complete occlusion preliminary to the articulation of a stop
- logic
- the closed sentence formed from a given open sentence by prefixing universal or existential quantifiers to bind all its free variables
- the process of forming such a closed sentence
- maths
- the smallest closed set containing a given set
- the operation of forming such a set
- the tendency, first noted by Gestalt psychologists, to see an incomplete figure like a circle with a gap in it as more complete than it is
- (in a deliberative body) to end (debate) by closure
