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closures

noun

Meaning

  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. (of a set) The smallest closed set which contains the given set.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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