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Restrictive vs Closed - What's the difference?

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Restrictive is a related term of closed.


As adjectives the difference between restrictive and closed

is that restrictive is confining, limiting, containing with in defined bounds while closed is sealed, made inaccessible or impassable; not open.

As a verb closed is

(close).

restrictive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • confining, limiting, containing with in defined bounds.

    • 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

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