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Closed vs Enclosing - What's the difference?

closed | enclosing |

As verbs the difference between closed and enclosing

is that closed is (close) while enclosing is .

As an adjective closed

is sealed, made inaccessible or impassable; not open.

As a noun enclosing is

that which encloses.

closed

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Sealed, made inaccessible or impassable; not open
  • (of a store or business) Not operating or conducting trade
  • Not public.
    • closed source
    a closed committee
  • (topology, of a set) Having an open complement.
  • (mathematics, of a set) Such that its image under the specified operation is contained in it.
    • The set of integers is closed under addition: \forall x,y\in\mathbb{Z}\,x+y\in\mathbb{Z}.
  • (mathematics, logic, of a formula) Lacking a free variable.

    • Synonyms

    * shut

    See also

    * close

    Verb

    (head)
  • (close)

    • Anagrams

    * (l) ----

    enclosing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which encloses.
  • * Bible, Exodus 39
    • And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were enclosed in ouches of gold in their enclosings .
  • The act or situation by which something is enclosed.
  • * 1995 , Frederick Garber, Repositionings (page 131)
    • Duane Duck'' is a play of boxes, explicit and implicit, frangible or firm; indeed, ''Duane Duck'' is a play ''about boxes, a performance of all manner of relations to enclosings .

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