Closure
Appearance
Closure or clausure may refer to:
Physical
- Closure (container) used to seal a bottle, jug, jar, can, or other container
- Closure (wine bottle), a stopper
- Hook-and-eye closure
Conceptual
Philosophy
- Epistemic closure, a principle in epistemology
- Deductive closure, a principle in logic
- Cognitive closure (philosophy)
- Closure: A Short History of Everything, a philosophical book by Hilary Lawson
Psychology
- Closure (psychology), the state of experiencing an emotional conclusion to a difficult life event
Law
- Closure (business), the process by which an organization ceases operations
- Closure, also known as cloture, is a motion in parliamentary procedure to bring debate to a quick end
Computer science
- Closure (computer programming), an abstraction binding a function to its scope
- Clojure, a dialect of the Lisp programming language
- Kleene closure
- Syntactic closure
- Google Closure Tools, a set of JavaScript tools created by Google
- Relational database model: Set-theoretic formulation and Armstrong's axioms for its use in database theory
Mathematics
- Closure (mathematics), a property said to be satisfied by a set under a given operation if and only if performing the operation on members of the set always produces a member of the same set.
- Transitive closure
- Algebraic closure
- Deductive closure
- Closure (topology), for a set, the smallest closed set containing that set
- Convex closure
- Closure operator
- Kuratowski closure axioms
Sociology
Other uses
- Closure (atmospheric science), is a type of experiment in aerosol and cloud studies
- Closure, a concept in the social construction of technology
- Law of Closure, a principle in Gestalt psychology
- Poetic closure
Names
Film and television
- Straightheads, a 2007 British thriller film, US release title Closure
- "Closure" (The X-Files), a 2000 episode of the television series The X-Files
- "Closure" (8 Simple Rules episode), a 2005 episode of the sitcom 8 Simple Rules
- "Closure" (Raines), a 2007 episode of the crime drama Raines
- "Closure" (Tru Calling), a 2004 episode of the supernatural drama Tru Calling
- A two-part episode, split between seasons 1 and 2 of Law and Order: SVU
- "Closure" (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), a 2015 episode of the television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Music
- Closure (band), a Canadian rock band
- Closure: Live, a 2001 live album by Norwegian gothic metal band Theatre of Tragedy
- Closure (Closure album), 2003
- Closure (Integrity album), 2001
- Closure (EP), a 2004 compilation album by Everclear
- Closure (video), a 1997 Nine Inch Nails video set
- "Closure" (Chevelle song), 2003
- "Closure" (Scarlett Belle song), 2010
- "Closure" (Gabrielle song), 2007
- "Closure", a song on Hood's 2005 album Outside Closer
- "Closure", a song by Opeth from their album Damnation
- "Closure", a song by Aly & AJ from their album Insomniatic
- "Closure", a song on Divine Heresy's 2007 album Bleed the Fifth
- "Closure", a song by pop punk band The Story So Far off their 2011 album Under Soil and Dirt
- Resolution (music), in music theory
Games
- Closure (video game), a 2012 puzzle game