clo|sure

clo|sure
clo|sure «KLOH zhuhr», noun, verb, -sured, -sur|ing.
–n.
1. the act of closing or shutting.
2. closed condition.
3. a thing that closes.
5. the closing of debate in a legislative body or the like; cloture: »

The Senate has repeatedly declined to…impose closure on the equal rights filibusters (Arthur Krock).

6. Mathematics. a property of an operation on any two members of a set in which the result of the operation is also a member of the set.
7. Phonetics. occlusion.
8. Psychology. the process by which incomplete figures, ideas, or situations tend to be completed mentally or perceived as complete.
9. Obsolete. a thing that encloses or confines; enclosure; cover.
–v.t., v.i.
to end (a legislative debate); use cloture.
╂[< Old French closure < Late Latin clausūra a lock, bolt; fortress < Latin claudere to close]

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