Closure

Closure may refer to:

• Closure (container) used to seal a bottle, jug, jar, can, or other container
  • Closure (wine bottle), a stopper
• Closure (business), the process by which an organization ceases operations
• Closure (philosophy), a principle in epistemology
• Closure (psychology), the state of experiencing an emotional conclusion to a difficult life event
• Closure, also known as cloture, is a motion in parliamentary procedure to bring debate to a quick end
• Closure (atmospheric science), is a type of experiment in aerosol and cloud studies
• Closure: A Short History of Everything, a philosophical book by Hilary Lawson
• Closure, a concept in the social construction of technology
• Deductive closure, the application of the mathematical concept to formal logic
• Law of Closure, a principle in Gestalt psychology
• Poetic closure

Computer science

• Closure (computer science), programming language construct, an abstraction binding a function to its scope
• Kleene closure (or Kleene star or Kleene operator), a unary operator on a set of strings or symbols
• Google Closure Tools, a set of JavaScript tools created by Google
• The programming language Clojure, a dialect of Lisp that runs on the Java Virtual Machine and the Common Language Runtime

Mathematics

• Closure (mathematics), the smallest object that both includes the object as a subset and possesses some given property
• Transitive closure
• Algebraic closure
• Closure (logic)
• Closure (topology), for a set, the smallest closed set containing that set
• Convex closure
• Kuratowski closure axioms

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.

Music

• Closure (band), a Canadian rock band
• Closure: Live, a 2001 live album by Norwegian gothic metal band Theatre of Tragedy
• Closure (album), a 2003 album by Canadian hard rock band Closure
• Closure EP, a 2004 compilation album by Everclear
• "Closure" (song), a 2003 song by Chevelle's album Wonder What's Next
• "Closure" (Scarlett Belle song), a 2010 song by Australian pop duo Scarlett Belle
• Closure (video), a 1997 Nine Inch Nails video set
• "Closure" (Gabrielle song), a song on Gabrielle's 2007 album Always
• "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
• Resolution (music), in music theory

Games

• Closure (video game), a puzzle game

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