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Completion vs Closure - What's the difference?

completion | closure |

In mathematics terms the difference between completion and closure

is that completion is the space resulting from such an act while closure is the smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.

As nouns the difference between completion and closure

is that completion is the act or state of being or making something complete; conclusion, accomplishment while closure is an event or occurrence that signifies an ending.

completion

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act or state of being or making something complete; conclusion, accomplishment.
  • *
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  • (label) The conclusion of an act of conveyancing concerning the sale of a property.
  • (label) The act of making a metric space complete by adding points.
  • (label) The space resulting from such an act.
  • Synonyms

    * (state of being complete) completeness

    Antonyms

    * (state of being or making complete) incompletion * termination

    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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