Antonyms for closure

Grammar : Noun

Spell : kloh-zher

Phonetic Transcription : ˈkloʊ ʒər

Definition of closure

Origin : late 14c., "a barrier, a fence," from Old French closure "enclosure; that which encloses, fastening, hedge, wall, fence," also closture "barrier, division; enclosure, hedge, fence, wall" (12c., Modern French clôture), from Late Latin clausura "lock, fortress, a closing" (source of Italian chiusura), from past participle stem of Latin claudere "to close" (see close (v.)). Sense of "act of closing, bringing to a close" is from early 15c. In legislation, especially "closing or stopping of debate." Sense of "tendency to create ordered and satisfying wholes" is 1924, from Gestalt psychology.

noun conclusion
noun plug, seal

Example sentences :

So Nana repeated the phrase by way of closure to all their quarrels.
Extract from : « Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille » by Emile Zola

The Conservatives and obstruction, the Liberals and closure.
Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

He zipped open the closure of his helmet and tilted the helmet back.
Extract from : « The Worshippers » by Damon Francis Knight

There only remained to fit in a solid door, which would assure the closure of Will Tree.
Extract from : « Godfrey Morgan » by Jules Verne

On the motion of any member, the closure may be applied and a vote ordered.
Extract from : « The Governments of Europe » by Frederic Austin Ogg

They slept; but my mind was too full to permit the closure of my eyes.
Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.) » by Robert Paltock

That formed by the current of air and the closure of the lips, as in ap.
Extract from : « A Handbook of the English Language » by Robert Gordon Latham

This may be variously described as movement of closure or of folding.
Extract from : « Life Movements in Plants, Volume II, 1919 » by Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose

That the conditions attaching to the closure were fair and reasonable.
Extract from : « Harper's Pictorial Library of the World War, Volume XII » by Various

The method of its closure was exceedingly simple and evident.
Extract from : « The Origin of Vertebrates » by Walter Holbrook Gaskell

Synonyms for closure

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