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Closure vs Elimination - What's the difference?

closure | elimination |

As nouns the difference between closure and elimination

is that closure is an event or occurrence that signifies an ending while elimination is elimination.

closure

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
    • the closure of a door, or of a chink
  • That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Without a seal, wafer, or any closure whatever.
  • (obsolete) That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.
  • * Shakespeare
    • O thou bloody prison / Within the guilty closure of thy walls / Richard the Second here was hacked to death.
  • A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.

    • Hyponyms

    * (device) clasp, hasp, latch, hook and eye

    Troponyms

    * (computer science) thunk

    See also

    * cloture

    Anagrams

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    elimination

    English

    Noun

  • The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
  • The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.
  • (television) The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
  • (biology) The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
  • (mathematics) The act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.
  • (logic) The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
  • (accounting) The act of recording amounts in a to remove the effects of inter-company transactions. FindMyBestCPA.com - Consolidated Statements (Interco eliminations)

    • Related terms

    * eliminable * eliminant * eliminate * eliminative * eliminator * eliminatory

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