# closure

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈkləʊ.ʒə(ɹ)/ · frequency rank #5,945

## Definitions
1. An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
2. A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
3. A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
4. 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. The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
6. The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
7. The act of shutting; a closing.
8. The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily.
9. That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
10. That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.
11. A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.
12. The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others based on various criteria. ᵂᵖ
13. The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.
14. The element of packaging that closes a container.

## Etymology
From Middle English closure, from Old French closure, from Late Latin clausura, from Latin claudere (“to close”); see clausure and cloture (etymological doublets) and close.

## Easily confused with
- **close** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/close-vs-closure)
- **closer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/closer-vs-closure)
- **censure** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/censure-vs-closure)

## Common misspellings (10)
`cclosure`, `cllosure`, `closrue`, `clossure`, `closuer`, `closurre`, `clousre`, `clsoure`, `colsure`, `lcosure`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/closure