| 单词 | closure |
| 释义 | Word Frequency closure(ˈkləʊʒə) noun 1. the act of closing or the state of being closed 2. an end or conclusion 3. something that closes or shuts, such as a cap or seal for a container 4. (in a deliberative body) a procedure by which debate may be halted and an immediate vote taken See also cloture, guillotine, gag rule 5. mainly US a. the resolution of a significant event or relationship in a person's life b. a sense of contentment experienced after such a resolution 6. geology the vertical distance between the crest of an anticline and the lowest contour that surrounds it 7. phonetics the obstruction of the breath stream at some point along the vocal tract, such as the complete occlusion preliminary to the articulation of a stop 8. logic a. the closed sentence formed from a given open sentence by prefixing universal or existential quantifiers to bind all its free variables b. the process of forming such a closed sentence 9. mathematics a. the smallest closed set containing a given set b. the operation of forming such a set 10. psychology the tendency, first noted by Gestalt psychologists, to see an incomplete figure like a circle with a gap in it as more complete than it is verb 11. (transitive) (in a deliberative body) to end (debate) by closure Word origin C14: from Old French, from Late Latin clausūra bar, from Latin claudere to close |
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