Enclosure vs Closure - What's the difference?
enclosure | closure |
(countable) Something enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.
(uncountable) The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package.
(countable) An area, domain, or amount of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers.
(uncountable) The act of separating and surrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier.
(uncountable, British History) The post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership.
The area of a convent, monastery, etc where access is restricted to community members.
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 enclosure and closure
is that enclosure is something enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package while closure is an event or occurrence that signifies an ending.enclosure
English
(wikipedia enclosure)Alternative forms
* inclosureNoun
- There was an enclosure with the letter — a photo.
- ''The enclosure of a photo with your letter is appreciated.
- He faced punishment for creating the fenced enclosure in a public park.
- The glass enclosure holds the mercury vapor.
- The winning horse was first into the unsaddling enclosure .
- The enclosure of public land is against the law.
- The experiment requires the enclosure of mercury vapor in a glass tube.
- At first, untrained horses resist enclosure .
- Strip-farming disappeared after enclosure .
Usage notes
* For more on the spelling of this word, see (m).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.