Associations to the word «Closed»

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Wiktionary

CLOSED, adjective. Sealed, made inaccessible or impassable; not open
CLOSED, adjective. (of a store or business) Not operating or conducting trade
CLOSED, adjective. Not public.
CLOSED, adjective. (topology) (of a set) Having an open complement.
CLOSED, adjective. (mathematics) (of a set) Such that its image under the specified operation is contained in it.
CLOSED, adjective. (mathematics) (logic) (of a formula) Lacking a free variable.
CLOSED, adjective. (graph theory) (of a walk) Whose first and last vertices are the same.
CLOSED, verb. Simple past tense and past participle of close
CLOSED BALL, noun. (analysis) A ball which contains its boundary, i.e., a ball which is a closed set.
CLOSED BETA, noun. (computing) A testing arrangement in which a beta test version of software is distributed to a small group of testers
CLOSED BOOK, noun. (idiomatic) A person or thing that cannot be easily understood; someone or something incomprehensible or puzzling.
CLOSED BOOKS, noun. Plural of closed book
CLOSED CAPTION, noun. Text which can be displayed on a television or other video screen with suitable equipment, usually a transcription or description of audio material.
CLOSED CAPTIONING, noun. The display of text on a television or video screen, usually a transcription of the audio portion of a program as it occurs (either verbatim or in edited form), used by the hearing-impaired and language learners. Closed captions are encoded invisibly, and displayed by a decoder.
CLOSED CAPTIONS, noun. Plural of closed caption
CLOSED CIRCUIT, noun. A circuit through which electrons can flow.
CLOSED CIRCUIT, noun. A complete electric circuit around which current can flow.
CLOSED CIRCUIT, noun. A network of one or more television cameras and television receivers connected together with no provision for broadcasting.
CLOSED CIRCUITS, noun. Plural of closed circuit
CLOSED CIRCULATORY SYSTEM, noun. Blood circulation via the pumping of the heart pushing blood through closed vessels
CLOSED CITY, noun. Any of several settlements in Russia that have travel and residency restrictions
CLOSED COMPOUND, noun. (grammar) A compound word without spaces in it. Some examples: dishcloth, keyboard, pancake, altogether, accuse, waterproof.
CLOSED COMPOUNDS, noun. Plural of closed compound
CLOSED CURVE, noun. (topology) A map from the circle, S1, to a topological space.(McLarty, p. 4)
CLOSED CUT VALLEY, noun. A method of valley application in which shingles from one side of the valley extend across the valley while shingles from the other side are trimmed back approximately 2 inches from the valley centerline.
CLOSED DOOR, adjective. Not open to participation by non-members or the public.
CLOSED FEEDWATER HEATER, noun. (engineering) (thermodynamics) A feedwater heater in which the two fluid streams do not mix.
CLOSED FEEDWATER HEATERS, noun. Plural of closed feedwater heater
CLOSED FILE, noun. (chess) A file with pawns of both colors on it.
CLOSED FILES, noun. Plural of closed file
CLOSED FORM, noun. (mathematics) A form (expression) that does not use limits, implicitly or explicitly.
CLOSED FORM, noun. Used other than as an idiom: see closed,‎ form.
CLOSED FORMULA, noun. (logic) A formula which has no free occurrences of variables; or equivalently, in which all occurrences of variables are bound.
CLOSED GAME, noun. (uncountable) A chess opening characterized by the moves 1.d4 d5, in which both White and Black move their queen's pawn to the fourth rank with their first move.
CLOSED GAME, noun. (countable) Any of the openings which begin in this way. (Queen's Gambit, Stonewall Attack, etc.)
CLOSED IN, verb. Simple past tense and past participle of close in
CLOSED MATTE, adjective. (film) Of a soft matte film, transferred to a home video format, especially DVD, with the theatrical mattes intact.
CLOSED OUT, verb. Simple past tense and past participle of close out
CLOSED SET, noun. (topology) A set whose complement is open.
CLOSED SHOP, noun. A business or industrial establishment whose employees are required to be labor union members as a precondition to employment.
CLOSED SOURCE, adjective. Alternative spelling of closed-source
CLOSED SYLLABLE, noun. (linguistics) A syllable that ends in a consonant.
CLOSED SYLLABLES, noun. Plural of closed syllable
CLOSED SYSTEM, noun. (thermodynamics) A system that can exchange heat and work, but not matter, with its surroundings.
CLOSED TIME LOOP, noun. A chain of events in which someone or something time travels to the past as a means to fulfill their role in the history exactly as it already happened, thus implying impossibility to change the past.
CLOSED TIME LOOPS, noun. Plural of closed time loop
CLOSED TIMELIKE CURVE, noun. A worldline that returns to its starting point.
CLOSED TIMELIKE CURVES, noun. Plural of closed timelike curve
CLOSED TOWN, noun. A relatively small closed city

Dictionary definition

CLOSED, adjective. Not open or affording passage or access; "the many closed streets made travel difficult"; "our neighbors peeped from behind closed curtains".
CLOSED, adjective. (set theory) of an interval that contains both its endpoints.
CLOSED, adjective. Not open; "the door slammed shut".
CLOSED, adjective. Used especially of mouth or eyes; "he sat quietly with closed eyes"; "his eyes were shut against the sunlight".
CLOSED, adjective. Requiring union membership; "a closed shop".
CLOSED, adjective. With shutters closed.
CLOSED, adjective. Not open to the general public; "a closed meeting".
CLOSED, adjective. Not having an open mind; "a closed mind unreceptive to new ideas".
CLOSED, adjective. Blocked against entry; "a closed porch".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats