closure

 
Pronunciation: /ˈkləʊʒə/

noun

[mass noun]
  • 1an act or process of closing something, especially an institution, thoroughfare, or frontier, or of being closed: hospitals that face closure [count noun]: road closures
  • [count noun] a thing that closes or seals something, such as a cap or tie.
  • 2(in a legislative assembly) a procedure for ending a debate and taking a vote: [as modifier]: a closure motion
  • 3a sense of resolution or conclusion at the end of an artistic work: he brings modernistic closure to his narrative
  • 3a feeling that an emotional or traumatic experience has been resolved: I am desperately trying to reach closure but I don’t know how to do it without answers from him

verb

[with object]
  • apply the closure to (a debate or speaker) in a legislative assembly.

Origin:

late Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin clausura, from claus- 'closed', from the verb claudere