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Closure   /klˈoʊʒər/   Listen
Closure

noun
1.
Approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap.  Synonym: closing.
2.
A rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body.  Synonyms: cloture, gag law, gag rule.
3.
A Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric.  Synonym: law of closure.
4.
Something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making.  Synonyms: resolution, settlement.  "They never did achieve a final resolution of their differences" , "He needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure"
5.
An obstruction in a pipe or tube.  Synonyms: block, blockage, occlusion, stop, stoppage.
6.
The act of blocking.  Synonyms: blockage, occlusion.
7.
Termination of operations.  Synonyms: closedown, closing, shutdown.
verb
1.
Terminate debate by calling for a vote.  Synonym: cloture.  "Cloture the discussion"



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"Closure" Quotes from Famous Books



... deceiving harmony should run Into the quiet closure of my breast; And then my little heart were quite undone, In his bedchamber to be barr'd of rest. 784 No, lady, no; my heart longs not to groan, But soundly sleeps, while now it ...
— Venus and Adonis • William Shakespeare

... issuing from the larynx, and here they become modified by the resonator; the throat portion of the resonator is shown continuous with the nasal passages; the mouth portion of the resonator is not in action, owing to the closure of the jaw and lips. The white spaces in the bones of the skull are air sinuses. In such a condition of the resonator, as in humming a tune, the sound waves must issue by the nasal passages, and therefore they acquire a ...
— The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song • F. W. Mott

... my heavy heart! Consuming care possesseth ev'ry part: Heart-sad Erinnis keeps his mansion here Within the closure of my woful breast; And black Despair with iron sceptre stands, And guides my thoughts down to his hateful cell. The wanton winds with whistling murmur bear My piercing plaints along the desert plains; ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. IX • Various

... estates to his ancestral town, some five miles distant. It is true, suh, these estates were no longer in his name, but that had no bearin' on the events that followed; he ought to have owned them, and would have done so but for some vehy ungentlemanly fo'closure proceedin's which occurred immediately after ...
— Colonel Carter of Cartersville • F. Hopkinson Smith

... standard and special construction was of varying width at the various shields, and was filled with a closure ring cast to the lengths determined in the field. Fig. 2 shows the ...
— Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 • James H. Brace, Francis Mason and S. H. Woodard


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