Closure

Closure, clausure, or clojure may refer to:

Physical

• Closure (container) used to seal a bottle, jug, jar, can, or other container
  • Closure (wine bottle), a stopper
• Hook-and-eye closure

Conceptual

Philosophy

• Epistemic closure, a principle in epistemology
• Deductive closure, a principle in logic
• Cognitive closure, a principle in philosophy of mind
• Closure: A Short History of Everything, a philosophical book by Hilary Lawson

Psychology

• Closure (psychology), the state of experiencing an emotional conclusion to a difficult life event
• Law of Closure, a principle in Gestalt psychology

Law and business

• Closure (business), the process by which an organization ceases operations
• End of business hours, when a business closes for the day
• Closure or cloture, a motion in parliamentary procedure to bring debate to a quick end

Computer science

• Closure (computer programming), an abstraction binding a function to its scope
• Clojure, a dialect of the Lisp programming language
• Kleene closure
• Syntactic closure
• Google Closure Tools, a set of JavaScript tools created by Google
• Relational database model: Set-theoretic formulation and Armstrong's axioms for its use in database theory

Mathematics

• Closure (mathematics), a property said to be satisfied by a set under a given operation if and only if performing the operation on members of the set always produces a member of the same set.
• Transitive closure
• Algebraic closure
• Deductive closure
• Closure (topology), for a set, the smallest closed set containing that set
• Convex closure
• Closure operator
• Kuratowski closure axioms

Sociology

• Closure (sociology)
• Closure, a concept in the social construction of technology

Other concepts

• Closure (atmospheric science), a type of experiment in aerosol and cloud studies
• Poetic closure, the sense of conclusion given at the end of a poem

Arts and media

Film and television

• Straightheads, a 2007 British thriller film, US release title Closure
• "Closure" (The X-Files), a 2000 episode of the television series The X-Files
• "Closure" (8 Simple Rules episode), a 2005 episode of the sitcom 8 Simple Rules
• "Closure" (Raines), a 2007 episode of the crime drama Raines
• "Closure" (Tru Calling), a 2004 episode of the supernatural drama Tru Calling
• A two-part episode, split between seasons 1 and 2 of Law and Order: SVU
• "Closure" (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), a 2015 episode of the television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Music

• Closure (band), Canadian rock band
• Closure (video), a 1997 Nine Inch Nails video set
• Resolution (music), in music theory

Albums and EPs

• Closure, 2003 album by Closure
• Closure, 2004 EP by Everclear
• Closure, 2001 album by Integrity
• Closure: Live, 2001 live album by Theatre of Tragedy
• Closure (Spahn Ranch album)

Songs

• "Closure", by Aly & AJ from Insomniatic, 2007
• "Closure", single by Cadet, 2017
• "Closure", by Chevelle from Wonder What's Next, 2002
• "Closure", by Divine Heresy from Bleed the Fifth, 2007
• "Closure", by Gabrielle from Always, 2007
• "Closure", single by Hayley Warner, 2015
• "Closure", by Hood from Outside Closer, 2005
• "C7osure (You Like)", by Lil Nas X from 7, 2019
• "Closure", by Maroon 5 from Red Pill Blues, 2017
• "Closure", by Opeth from Damnation, 2003
• "Closure", single by Scarlett Belle, 2010
• "Closure", by The Story So Far from Under Soil and Dirt, 2011
• "Closure", by Taylor Swift from "Evermore"

Other media

• Closure (video game), a 2012 puzzle game
• Closure: A Short History of Everything, a philosophical book by Hilary Lawson

See also

• Clozure, an implementation of Common Lisp
• Clojure, a dialect of Lisp symbiotic with the Java platform
• Close (disambiguation)
• Closed (disambiguation)
• Closing (disambiguation)