Closing vs Closure - What's the difference?
closing | closure |
The act by which something is closed.
The end or conclusion of something
The final procedure in a house sale when documents are signed and recorded.
Coming after all others.
An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
(computer science) An abstraction that represents a function within an environment, a context consisting of the variables that are both bound at a particular time during the execution of the program and that are within the function's scope.
(mathematics) The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
(topology, of a set) The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
The act of shutting; a closing.
That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
* Alexander Pope
(obsolete) That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.
* Shakespeare
A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.
As nouns the difference between closure and closing
is that closure is an event or occurrence that signifies an ending while closing is the act by which something is closed.As an adjective closing is
coming after all others.As a verb closing is
present participle of lang=en.closing
English
Noun
(en noun)- openings and closings of doors
- The closing of the curtains.
Adjective
(-)Verb
(head)closure
English
Noun
(en noun)- the closure of a door, or of a chink
- Without a seal, wafer, or any closure whatever.
- O thou bloody prison / Within the guilty closure of thy walls / Richard the Second here was hacked to death.
