Closure vs. Closing — What's the Difference?

The act of closing or the state of being closed

The end or conclusion

Something that closes or shuts.

A meeting for completing a transaction, especially one at which contracts are signed transferring ownership of real estate.

A bringing to an end; a conclusion

The act by which something is closed.

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

The end or conclusion of something.

See cloture.

The final procedure in a house sale, when documents are signed and recorded.

The property of being mathematically closed.

(math) In morphology, the erosion of the dilation of a set.

To cloture (a debate).

Pertaining to the finish or ending of a series of events; occurring at the end or after all others.

An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.

Present participle of close

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

Final or ending; terminal; as, the closing stages of the election; the closing weeks of the year; the closing scene of the film; closing remarks. Opposite of opening.

A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.

The act of closing something.

(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.

The last section of a communication.

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

Termination of operations.

The smallest closed set which contains the given set.

A concluding action.

The act of shutting; a closing.

The final action in a commercial transaction, especially the meeting between buyer and seller (and in some cases mortgagee), or their representatives, in a transaction for sale of real estate in which all documents are signed and all procedures carried out to complete the sale; - called also real estate closing.

The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily.

The act of closing something

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

The last section of a communication;

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

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

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

Termination of operations;

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

A concluding action

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

Final or ending;

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;