Hypertext Webster Gateway: "closure"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Closure \Clo"sure\ (?, 135), n. [Of. closure, L. clausura, fr.
clauedere to shut. See {Close}, v. t.]
1. The act of shutting; a closing; as, the closure of a
chink.
2. That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts
are fastened or closed.
Without a seal, wafer, or any closure whatever.
--Pope.
3. That which incloses or confines; an inclosure.
O thou bloody prison . . . Within the guilty closure
of thy walls Richard the Second here was hacked to
death. --Shak.
4. A conclusion; an end. [Obs.] --Shak.
5. (Parliamentary Practice) A method of putting an end to
debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure
before a legislative body. It is similar in effect to the
previous question. It was first introduced into the
British House of Commons in 1882. The French word
{cl[^o]ture} was originally applied to this proceeding.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
closure
n 1: approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a
narrowing of a gap; "the ship's rapid rate of closing
gave them little time to avoid a collision" [syn: {closing}]
2: a rule for ending debate in a deliberative body [syn: {cloture},
{gag rule}]
3: an obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber
to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe" [syn: {blockage},
{block}, {occlusion}, {stop}, {stoppage}]
4: the act of blocking [syn: {blockage}, {occlusion}]
5: termination of operations [syn: {closedown}, {closing}, {shutdown}]
v : terminate debate by calling for a vote; "debate was
closured"; "cloture the discussion" [syn: {cloture}]
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