closure vs endgame

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. 

endgame

noun
  • The final stage of an extended process or course of events, especially with the implication of the imminent realization of a masterful strategy or plan. 

  • The final stage of a game of chess, when there are few pieces left. 

  • The final stage of any game. 

  • The gameplay available in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game for players who have completed all of the preset challenges. 

  • The final stage of a game of bridge, when there are few cards left. 

adj
  • Having become canon by the end of the plot of a work of fiction or speculated to be intended to become such. 

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