closure

  1. Noun.  An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
  2. Noun.  A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
  3. Noun.  A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
  4. Noun.  (computer science) 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.
  5. Noun.  (mathematics) The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
  6. Noun.  (topology) (''of a set'') The smallest closed set which contains the given set.

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