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Termination vs Closure - What's the difference?

termination | closure |

As nouns the difference between termination and closure

is that termination is the process of terminating or the state of being terminated while closure is an event or occurrence that signifies an ending.

termination

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The process of terminating or the state of being terminated.
  • The process of firing an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason.
  • An end in time; a conclusion.
  • An end in space; an edge or limit.
  • An outcome or result.
  • The last part of a word; a suffix.
  • (medical) An induced abortion.
  • (obsolete, rare) A word, a term.
  • * 1599 ,
  • She speaks poniards, and every word stabs: if her breath were as terrible as her terminations , there were no living near her; she would infect to the north star.
  • The ending up of a polypeptid chain.
  • Synonyms

    * (process of terminating ): discontinuation, stoppage * (state of being termined ): discontinuation * (process of firing an employee ): discharge, dismissal * (end in time ): close, conclusion, end, finale, finish, stop * (end in space ): border, edge, end, limit, lip, rim, tip * (outcome ): consequence, outcome, result, upshot * (medical): abortion, induced abortion

    Antonyms

    * (process of terminating or the state of being terminated) continuation

    Derived terms

    * extermination * terminative * terminative case

    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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