Look up: closure

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   Closure
   The procedure a landfill operator must follow when a landfill reaches its legal capacity for solid ceasing acceptance of solid waste and placing a cap on the landfill site.
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   closure
   [Noun] Shutting down.
   Example: The closure of the factory was announced due to falling orders.
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   closure
   1) in Gestalt psychology the term refers to the way that we fill in gaps where there is missing information in a stimulus. 2) in the analysis of texts, the term refers to ideological closure, which means the strategies used in the text to lead the reader to make sense of the text according to a particular ideological framework. The idea of ideological closure is useful because it leads us to examine how a text has been constructed to lead to a particular reading and exclude other possible readings. -
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   closure
   [n] - a rule for ending debate in a deliberative body 2. [n] - termination of operations 3. [v] - terminate debate by calling for a vote
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   Closure
   All round closure or seal is necessary, over the top and down the gradients on the sides of a potential reservoir, before it can trap or retain hydrocarbons. Closure may be partly due to an impermeable fault, or structural as in an anticline, or may be due to a stratigraphic trapping.
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   closure
   Method of bringing a question under discussion to an immediate decision in Parliamentary procedure. It was introduced in 1881 by William Gladstone to combat the obstructive tactics of the Irish...
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   Closure
   A mathmatical term which says that if you operated on any two real numbers A and B with +,-,* or /, you get a real number
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   closure
   A mathmatical term which says that if you operated on any two real numbers A and B with +,-,* or /, you get a real number
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   closure
   1. (programming) In a reduction system, a closure is a data structure that holds an expression and an environment of variable bindings in which that expression is to be evaluated. The variables may be local or global. Closures are used to represent unevaluated expressions when implementing functional programming languages with lazy evaluation. In...
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    closure
    the cork,screw cap or other appliance used to close a bottle Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries • a term referring to a forest or other tract of land to which entry is restricted or prohibited for the protection of wildlife in general Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
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    Closure
    Definition (undergraduate level) The closure of A , written A ¯ is the intersection of all closed sets containing A ; a point b ∈ A ¯ iff every neighbourhood of b contains points of A . The closure of a set is closed. We say that a set X 0 is dense in X if X 0 ¯ = X . This means that any point in X can be approximated ar ...
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    Closure
    Clo'sure noun [ Of. closure, Latin clausura , from clauedere to shut. See Close , transitive verb ] 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.  ...
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    closure
    1. The completion of a reflex pathway. ... 2. The place of coupling between stimuli in the establishment of conditioned learning. ... 3. To achieve or experience a sense of completion in a mental task. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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    closure
    law of closure noun a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric
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    closure
    cloture noun a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body
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    closure
    closedown noun termination of operations; `they regretted the closure of the day care center`
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    closure
    cloture verb terminate debate by calling for a vote; `debate was closured`; `cloture the discussion`
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    Closure
    `Closure` may refer to: * Algebraic closure * Closure (computer science), an abstraction binding a function to its scope * Closure (mathematics), the smallest object that both includes the object as a subset and possesses some given property * Closure (logic) * Closure (topology), the set of all points intuitively `close to` a given set * Closure (philosophy), a philosophical description of the world put forward by Hilary Lawson * Closure (psyc...
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    closure
    (klo´zhәr) occlusion. obstruction. delayed primary closure the surgical closing of a wound several days after the injury because the wound was initially too contaminated to close; called also healing by third intention. Vacuum Assisted Closure(V...
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    Closure
    • (v. t.) 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 cloture was originally applied to this proceeding. • (v. t.) That which incloses or con...
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    closure
    (from the article `formal logic`) ...is free. In the wffs of a lower predicate calculus, every occurrence of a predicate variable (, , , . . . ) is free. A wff containing no free ... ...that contains precisely two free individual variables. By prefixing to two appropriate quantifiers and possibly one or more negation signs, it is ... ...
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    closure
    (from the article `packaging`) ...product use, and the expense of package production. When the product handled is food, packaging must be designed to retard spoilage and prevent ...
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    closure
    (from the article `perception`) The principle of closure often operates in the service of Prägnanz; for example, a circular figure with small gaps in it will be seen as a complete ... Closure (a term used in Gestalt psychology) is the illusion of seeing an incomplete stimulus as though it were whole. Thus, one unconsciously tends ....
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    Closure
    See macroeconomic closure.
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    Closure
    Any mechanical part which seals a port or chamber.
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