Usually means: Resolution or conclusion of something.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. closure: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. closure: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. closure: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. closure: Collins English Dictionary
  5. closure: Vocabulary.com
  6. Closure, closure: Wordnik
  7. closure: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. closure: Wiktionary
  9. closure: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. closure: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. closure: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. closure: Dictionary.com
  13. closure: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. closure: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Closure (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Closure (Cadet song), Closure (Chevelle song), Closure (Nine Inch Nails VHS), Closure (The X-Files), Closure (band), Closure (binary operation), Closure (business), Closure (computer programming), Closure (computer science), Closure (container), Closure (disambiguation), Closure (mathematics), Closure (programming), Closure (psychology), Closure (sociology), Closure (topology), Closure (video), Closure (video game), Closure (wine bottle), Closure: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Closure: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. closure: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. closure: Rhymezone
  19. Closure: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. closure: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. CLOSURE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. closure: Free Dictionary
  23. closure: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. closure: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. closure: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. closure: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. CLOSURE: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Closure (disambiguation), Closure (general), closure: Legal dictionary
  3. Closure (disambiguation), Closure (general), closure: Financial dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. closure: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Closure: Cybernetics and Systems
  3. Closure (disambiguation), Closure (general), closure: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Closure: Visionary
  4. Skin Cancer Information (No longer online)
  5. Closure (disambiguation), Closure (general), closure: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. closure: Political

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Visionary, for the Study of Vision (No longer online)
  2. closure: Archaeology Wordsmith
  3. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  4. Closure: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  5. -closure, closure, closure, closure: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  6. closure: UNCChem Glossary
  7. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. closure: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  3. CLOSURE: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary
  4. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  5. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  6. closure: Television: Critical Methods and Applications

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
noun:  A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
noun:  A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
noun:  (programming) 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.
noun:  (mathematics) The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
noun:  (topology, of a set) The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
noun:  The act of shutting; a closing.
noun:  The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily.
noun:  That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
noun:  (obsolete) That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.
noun:  (politics) A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.
noun:  (sociology) The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others from their group based on varied criteria. ᵂᵖ
noun:  The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.
noun:  (food packaging industry) The element of packaging that closes a container.

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