closure
pronunciation
How to pronounce closure in British English:
UK [ˈkləʊʒə(r)]
How to pronounce closure in American English:
US [ˈkloʊʒə(r)]
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- Noun:
- approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap
- a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body
- 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
- something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- the act of blocking
- termination of operations
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- Verb:
- terminate debate by calling for a vote
Word Origin
- closure (n.)
- late 14c., "a barrier, a fence," from Old French closure "enclosure; that which encloses, fastening, hedge, wall, fence," also closture "barrier, division; enclosure, hedge, fence, wall" (12c., Modern French clôture), from Late Latin clausura "lock, fortress, a closing" (source of Italian chiusura), from past participle stem of Latin claudere "to close" (see close (v.)). Sense of "act of closing, bringing to a close" is from early 15c. In legislation, especially "closing or stopping of debate." Sense of "tendency to create ordered and satisfying wholes" is 1924, from Gestalt psychology.
Example
- 1. She ordered the immediate closure of seven reactors .
- 2. And what can be learned from its closure ?
- 3. Others hope for a different ending , but seek closure nonetheless .
- 4. The precise cause of the dubai skyscraper 's closure remained murky .
- 5. Is using the closure of heating stoves , gas heaters .