closure

B2 · Upper Intermediate Uncountable noun

n. the feeling that a difficult period in your life has finally ended and you can move on.

n. a psychological sense of finality or resolution following a period of grief, trauma, or unresolved conflict.

“She hoped that talking to her ex-husband one last time would give her some closure.”

“Psychologists argue that victims of unsolved crimes often struggle to find closure because the lack of a clear ending prevents the grieving process from concluding.”

C1 · Advanced Countable noun Technical

n. a thing that closes a container, such as a cap on a bottle or a lid on a jar.

n. a device or mechanism designed to seal a container or package.

“The wine bottle has a screw-top closure instead of a traditional cork.”

“The pharmaceutical company developed a child-resistant closure to ensure the safety of the medication packaging.”

C2 · Proficiency Countable noun Computing Technical

n. a function that remembers the environment where it was created.

n. a record storing a function together with an environment: a mapping associating each free variable of the function with the value or storage location to which the name was bound when the closure was created.

“Using a closure allows the function to access variables from the outer scope even after that scope has closed.”

“The developer utilised a closure to maintain the state of the counter without polluting the global namespace.”

C1 · Advanced Uncountable noun Law Formal

n. a rule used in a government meeting to end a long discussion and start voting.

n. a procedure for ending a debate and taking an immediate vote on a measure, often used to overcome a filibuster.

“The chairman called for closure to stop the argument and finally vote on the new law.”

“The government invoked closure to terminate the protracted debate on the controversial tax reform bill.”

C2 · Proficiency Countable noun Mathematics Technical

n. the smallest set that contains a certain group of numbers and follows a specific rule.

n. the smallest set that contains a given set and is closed under a particular operation or possesses a specific property.

“The closure of the set of integers under addition is the set of integers itself.”

“In topology, the closure of a subset consists of all points in the subset along with its limit points.”

C2 · Proficiency Law Formal · Technical

v. to officially end a debate in a parliament so that a vote can happen.

v. to apply the procedure of closure to a legislative debate. Transitive use.

“The speaker decided to closure the debate after three days of talking.”

“The motion to closure the proceedings was narrowly defeated, allowing the opposition to continue their questioning for another session.”