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Closure vs Sealing - What's the difference?

closure | sealing |

As nouns the difference between closure and sealing

is that closure is an event or occurrence that signifies an ending while sealing is action of the verb to seal in any sense.

As an adjective sealing is

used for closing securely.

As a verb sealing is

present participle of lang=en.

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

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    sealing

    English

    Etymology 1

    (seal) (device )

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Used for closing securely.
  • Derived terms
    * self-sealing * sealing apparatus * sealing bath * sealing bloom * sealing cell * sealing compound * sealing material * sealing money * sealing power * sealing smut * sealing strip * sealing-thread * sealing-water * sealing-wax, sealing wax

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

  • Action of the verb to seal in any sense.
  • Derived terms
    * seam sealing

    Etymology 2

    (seal) (mammal )

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (-)
  • Hunting of seals (the animals ).
  • Derived terms
    * sealing-voyage

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