closure

closure
closure late 14c., "a barrier, a fence," from O.Fr. closure "enclosure; that which encloses, fastening, hedge, wall, fence," also closture "barrier, division; enclosure, hedge, fence, wall" (12c., Mod.Fr. clôture), from L. clausura "lock, fortress, a closing" (Cf. It. chiusura), from pp. stem of claudere "to close" (see CLOSE (Cf. close) (v.)). Sense of "act of closing, bringing to a close" is from early 15c. Sense of "tendency to create ordered and satisfying wholes" is 1924, from Gestalt psychology.

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