closurethe act of closing; bringing to an end; something that closes: The arrest brought closure to the difficult case.Not to be confused with:closer ? a person or thing that closes: She was called in to be the closer of the deal.; nearer: She?s closer to understanding the situation.cloture ? a method of closing a debate and forcing an immediate voteAbused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree Copyright © 2007, 2013 by Mary Embreeclo·sure (kl??zh?r)n.1. The act of closing or the state of being closed: closure of an incision.2. Something that closes or shuts.3. a. A bringing to an end; a conclusion: finally brought the project to closure.b. A feeling of finality or resolution, especially after a traumatic experience: sought closure in returning to the scene of the accident.4. See cloture.5. The property of being mathematically closed.tr.v. clo·sured, clo·sur·ing, clo·sures To cloture (a debate).[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin claus?ra, fortress, lock, from clausus, enclosed; see close. Sense 4, translation of French clôture.]American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.closure (?kl????) n1. the act of closing or the state of being closed2. an end or conclusion3. something that closes or shuts, such as a cap or seal for a container4. (Parliamentary Procedure) (in a deliberative body) a procedure by which debate may be halted and an immediate vote taken. See also cloture, guillotine, gag rule5. chiefly a. the resolution of a significant event or relationship in a person’s lifeb. a sense of contentment experienced after such a resolution6. (Geological Science) geology the vertical distance between the crest of an anticline and the lowest contour that surrounds it7. (Phonetics & Phonology) 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 stop8. (Logic) logic a. the closed sentence formed from a given open sentence by prefixing universal or existential quantifiers to bind all its free variablesb. the process of forming such a closed sentence9. (Mathematics) maths a. the smallest closed set containing a given setb. the operation of forming such a set10. (Psychology) psychol 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 isvb (Parliamentary Procedure) (tr) (in a deliberative body) to end (debate) by closure[C14: from Old French, from Late Latin claus?ra bar, from Latin claudere to close]Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014clo?sure (?klo? ??r) n., v. -sured, -sur?ing. n. 1. the act of closing; the state of being closed. 2. a bringing to an end; conclusion. 3. something that closes or shuts. 4. a blockage of the flow of air by contact between vocal organs in producing a sound. 5. a cloture. 6. the property of being closed with respect to a particular mathematical operation. 7. a. the tendency to see an entire figure even though the picture of it is incomplete, based primarily on the viewer’s past experience. b. a sense of certainty or completeness: a need for closure. 8. Obs. something that encloses; enclosure. v.t. 9. to cloture. [1350?1400; Middle English