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closed
[klohzd]
adjective
having or forming a boundary or barrier.
He was blocked by a closed door.
The house had a closed porch.
brought to a close; concluded.
It was a closed incident with no repercussions.
not public; restricted; exclusive.
a closed meeting;
a closed bid at a private auction.
not open to new ideas or arguments.
self-contained; independent or self-sufficient.
a closed, symbiotic relationship.
Phonetics.(of a syllable) ending with a consonant or a consonant cluster, as has, hasp.
Linguistics.(of a class of items) limited in membership and not readily expanded to include new items, as the class of inflectional affixes, articles, pronouns, or auxiliaries (open, ).
Hunting, Angling.restricted as to the kind of game that may be legally taken and as to where or when it may be taken.
woods closed to deer hunters.
Mathematics.
(of a set in which a combining operation between members of the set is defined) such that performing the operation between members of the set produces a member of the set, as multiplication in the set of integers.
(of an interval) containing both of its endpoints.
(of a map from one topological space to another) having the property that the image of a closed set is a closed set.
(of a curve) not having endpoints; enclosing an area.
(of a surface) enclosing a volume.
(of a function or operator) having as its graph a closed set.
closed
/ əʊ /
adjective
blocked against entry; shut
restricted; exclusive
not open to question or debate
(of a hunting season, etc) close
maths
(of a curve or surface) completely enclosing an area or volume
(of a set) having members that can be produced by a specific operation on other members of the same set
the integers are a closed set under multiplication
Also: checked.phonetics
denoting a syllable that ends in a consonant
another word for close 1
not open to public entry or membership
the closed society of publishing
Other 51Թ Forms
- half-closed adjective
- semiclosed adjective
- well-closed adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Example Sentences
Scotland's Net Zero Secretary Gillian Martin said at the committee that the "door's not closed" to companies and inquiries could still be made about working at Grangemouth, adding that Petroineos had also received approaches.
It comes as missiles have been launched by both countries in recent days with Israeli airspace remaining closed.
Some car washes, which were a frequent target of agents last week, have also temporarily closed.
Grounds were closed to fans as football limped through the end of the 2019-20 season.
"We closed the door, and suddenly there was such a big boom," she says.
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