Callback vs. Closure — What's the Difference?

The act or an instance of calling back from one location or situation to the previous one

The act of closing or the state of being closed

A second or follow-up audition, especially as one of a set of such auditions for a role in a play.

Something that closes or shuts.

A return telephone or radio call.

A bringing to an end; a conclusion

A recall of a recently sold product by the manufacturer to correct a defect.

A feeling of finality or resolution, especially after a traumatic experience

The return of a situation to a previous position or state.

See cloture.

(telephony) A return telephone or radio call; especially one made automatically to authenticate a logon to a computer network.

The property of being mathematically closed.

A product recall because of a defect or safety concern.

To cloture (a debate).

(programming) A function pointer passed as an argument to another function.

An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.

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A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.

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A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.

(theater) A follow-up audition in casting.

(programming) 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.

(comedy) A joke which references an earlier joke in the same routine.

(mathematics) The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.

A form of audience participation in which the audience shout lines in response to the dialog of a film.

The smallest closed set which contains the given set.

A request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair)

The act of shutting; a closing.

The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily.

That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.

(obsolete) That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.

(politics) A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.

(sociology) The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others from their group based on varied criteria. ^Wp

The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.

The act of shutting; a closing; as, the closure of a chink.

That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.

That which incloses or confines; an inclosure.

A conclusion; an end.

A method of putting an end to debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body. It is similar in effect to the previous question. It was first introduced into the British House of Commons in 1882. The French word clôture was originally applied to this proceeding.

The property of being mathematically closed under some operation; - said of sets.

The intersection of all closed sets containing the given set.

Achievement of a sense of completeness and release from tension due to uncertainty; as, the closure afforded by the funeral of a loved one; also, the sense of completion thus achieved.

Approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap;

A rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body

A Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric

Something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making;

An obstruction in a pipe or tube;

The act of blocking

Termination of operations;

Terminate debate by calling for a vote;