<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the act of closing; the state of being closed.</li><li>a bringing to an end; conclusion.</li><li>something that closes or shuts.</li><li>closer 1 (def 5).</li><li>an architectural screen or parapet, especially one standing free between columns or piers.</li><li>Phonetics: an occlusion of the vocal tract as an articulatory feature of a particular speech sound.</li><li>Compare constriction (def 5).</li><li>Parliamentary Procedure: a cloture.</li><li>Surveying: completion of a closed traverse in such a way that the point of origin and the endpoint coincide within an acceptably small margin of error.</li><li>Compare error of closure.</li><li>Mathematics: the property of being closed with respect to a particular operation.</li><li>the intersection of all closed sets that contain a given set.</li><li>Psychology: the tendency to see an entire figure even though the picture of it is incomplete, based primarily on the viewer's past experience.</li><li>a sense of psychological certainty or completeness: a need for closure.</li><li>Obsolete: something that encloses or shuts in; enclosure.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with or without object)</strong></p><ul><li>closured, closuring.</li><li>Parliamentary Procedure: to cloture.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>