burst vs closure

burst

noun
  • An act or instance of bursting. 

  • A series of shots fired from an automatic firearm. 

  • A sudden, often intense, expression, manifestation or display. 

  • The explosion of a bomb or missile. 

verb
  • To cause to break from internal pressure. 

  • To break from internal pressure. 

  • To separate (printer paper) at perforation lines. 

  • To produce as an effect of bursting. 

  • To erupt; to change state suddenly as if bursting. 

  • To interrupt suddenly in a violent or explosive manner; to shatter. 

  • To enter or exit hurriedly and unexpectedly. 

closure

noun
  • An event or occurrence that signifies an ending. 

  • A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing. 

  • 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. 

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

  • The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property. 

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

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

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

  • The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily. 

  • The smallest closed set which contains the given set. 

  • The act of shutting; a closing. 

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

How often have the words burst and closure occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )