closure

The act of shutting; a closing.

The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily.

(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.

That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.

The element of packaging that closes a container.

An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.

A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.

The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.

The phenomenon whereby incomplete objects, shapes, and figures are perceived as complete.

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.

The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.

The smallest closed set which contains the given set.

The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others based on various criteria.

(no longer used) That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.

To end the parliamentary debate on (an issue) by closure.