Other forms: closures
Closure is a shutting down, or the settled feeling after an ending. Factory closure, road closure, seek closure.
The emotional sense came from psychology into ordinary speech and has been criticised there — grief does not close, and expecting it to can make things harder. In parliament, closure is the procedure for ending a debate. In mathematics it means something else again.
1nounshuttingA shutting down.
“The closure of the local hospital means patients must now travel an hour for treatment.”
2nounclosureThe settled feeling after an ending.
“After the trial, the victim's family finally felt some closure.”
closure is a shutting, or a resolution.
Old French closure comes from Latin clausura, from claudere, to close. Cloture, the parliamentary term, is the same word.
Latin
clausura
Old French
closure
Middle English
closure
English, today
closure
From Middle English closure, from Old French closure, from Latin clausura, from Latin claudere (“to close”); see a doublet of clausure and cloture (etymological doublets) and close.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA