closure
Meaning of closure
- an act or process of closing something, especially an institution, thoroughfare, or frontier, or of being closed.
hospitals that face closure
road closures
- (in a legislative assembly) a procedure for ending a debate and taking a vote.
a closure motion
- a sense of resolution or conclusion at the end of an artistic work.
he brings modernistic closure to his narrative
verb
apply the closure to (a debate or speaker) in a legislative assembly.
late Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin clausura, from claus- ‘closed’, from the verb claudere .
Information about closure
- The plural form of closure is: closures.
- Languages in which closure is used:
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Hyphenation of closure
clo-sure
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- closure is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
closure synonyms
Meaning closing:
Meaning cloture:
Meaning settlement:
Meaning blockage:
blockage, block, occlusion, stop, stoppage
Meaning closedown:
Meaning the action of terminating something or the fact of being terminated:
Meaning the fact or process of ending or being brought to an end:
Meaning an end or final part or stage of something:
Meaning bring (a task or activity) to an end; complete:
Meaning the end or finish of an event, process, or text:
Meaning bring or come to an end:
Meaning a filling for a tooth:
Meaning slow and hesitant, especially through lack of confidence; faltering:
Meaning come or bring to an end:
Meaning the collapse of a business:
Meaning (of a piece of furniture or equipment) able to be bent or rearranged into a flatter or more compact shape, typically in order to make it easier to store or carry:
Translation of closure
- Spanish: bloqueo, oclusión
- French: obstruction, blocage, occlusion
- Italian: intasatura, occlusione
- German: Verstopfung
Anagrams of closure
Words that rhyme with closure
sure, HemaSure, LigaSure, PediaSure, ProstAsure, Rasure, admeasure, antipleasure, commeasure, countercountermeasure, countermeasure, displeasure, embrasure, endpleasure, entreasure, erasure, forepleasure, intermeasure, intreasure, leasure, measure, mismeasure, nonerasure, outmeasure, overmeasure, passemeasure, passymeasure, pleasure, premeasure, rasure, remeasure, seasure, treasure, undermeasure, unpleasure, untreasure, CloseSure, cesure, brisure, deprisure, frisure, gardevisure, incisure, leisure, poisure, seisure, supervisure, wisure, cocksure, FluINsure