| closure | | |
| n. (act) | 1. closing, closure | approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap.; "the ship's rapid rate of closing gave them little time to avoid a collision" |
| ~ coming, approach, approaching | the act of drawing spatially closer to something.; "the hunter's approach scattered the geese" |
| n. (communication) | 2. closure, cloture, gag law, gag rule | a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body. |
| ~ parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure, rules of order, order | a body of rules followed by an assembly. |
| ~ closure by compartment, guillotine | closure imposed on the debate of specific sections of a bill. |
| n. (cognition) | 3. closure, law of closure | a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric. |
| ~ gestalt law of organization, gestalt principle of organization | a principle of Gestalt psychology that identifies factors leading to particular forms of perceptual organization. |
| n. (cognition) | 4. closure, resolution, settlement | something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making.; "they finally reached a settlement with the union"; "they never did achieve a final resolution of their differences"; "he needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure" |
| ~ deciding, decision making | the cognitive process of reaching a decision.; "a good executive must be good at decision making" |
| n. (artifact) | 5. block, blockage, closure, occlusion, stop, stoppage | an obstruction in a pipe or tube.; "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe" |
| ~ breech closer, breechblock | a metal block in breech-loading firearms that is withdrawn to insert a cartridge and replaced to close the breech before firing. |
| ~ impedimenta, obstruction, impediment, obstructer, obstructor | any structure that makes progress difficult. |
| ~ plug, stopple, stopper | blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly. |
| ~ vapor lock, vapour lock | a stoppage in a pipeline caused by gas bubbles (especially a stoppage that develops in hot weather in an internal-combustion engine when fuel in the gas line boils and forms bubbles that block the flow of gasoline to the carburetor). |
| n. (act) | 6. blockage, closure, occlusion | the act of blocking. |
| ~ obstruction | the act of obstructing.; "obstruction of justice" |
| ~ implosion | the initial occluded phase of a stop consonant. |
| n. (act) | 7. closedown, closing, closure, shutdown | termination of operations.; "they regretted the closure of the day care center" |
| ~ ending, termination, conclusion | the act of ending something.; "the termination of the agreement" |
| ~ plant closing | act of shutting down operation of a plant. |
| ~ bank closing | act of closing down a bank because of a fiscal emergency or failure. |
| ~ layoff | the act of laying off an employee or a work force. |
| v. (change) | 8. closure, cloture | terminate debate by calling for a vote.; "debate was closured"; "cloture the discussion" |
| ~ terminate, end | bring to an end or halt.; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I" |
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