The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily.
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 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.
The act or state of desisting; cessation.