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Definition of Closed

1. Adjective. Not open or affording passage or access. "Our neighbors peeped from behind closed curtains"

2. Adjective. (set theory) of an interval that contains both its endpoints.

3. Adjective. Not open. "The door slammed shut"

4. Adjective. Used especially of mouth or eyes. "His eyes were shut against the sunlight"

5. Adjective. Requiring union membership. "A closed shop"

6. Adjective. With shutters closed.

7. Adjective. Not open to the general public. "A closed meeting"

8. Adjective. Not having an open mind. "A closed mind unreceptive to new ideas"

9. Adjective. Blocked against entry. "A closed porch"

Definition of Closed

1. Adjective. Sealed, made inaccessible or impassable; not open ¹

2. Adjective. (context: of a store or business) Not operating or conducting trade ¹

3. Adjective. Non public (as in closed source) ¹

4. Adjective. (topology of a set) Having an open complement. ¹

5. Adjective. (mathematics of a set) Such that its image under the specified operation is contained in it. ¹

6. Adjective. (mathematics logic of a formula) Lacking a free variable. ¹

7. Verb. (past of close) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Closed

1. close [v] - See also: close

Lexicographical Neighbors of Closed

close support close supporting fire close the door on close the face close the stable door after the horse has bolted close to close to home close to one's vest close to the vest close to the wind

close together(p) close up close up shop closeable closeby closed (current term) closed(a) closed-angle glaucoma closed-book closed-captioned

closed-chain closed-circuit closed-circuit television closed-cut valley closed-door closed-end fund closed-end investment company closed-form closed-heart surgery

Literary usage of Closed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report by New York (State) (1872)
"Rebuilding lock No. 2 $1, 224 00 Removing wall bench, etc., from lock No. 2 to Port Raising and repairing Troy 4am 8791 18 - 21964 18 closed. ..."

2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1913)
"Specifically the question called for a determination of the apparent distance of the after-image from the eye and its size on the closed field of vision, ..."

3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1868)
"the same generator; and, making them first extremities, proceed to inscribe 27i'gons. (1) If these assumed points be found to be first extremities of closed ..."

4. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"The open-shell SCF-MO method differs from the closed shell one in that it does provide additional allowance for correlation through its use of different ..."

5. The Best Plays by Burns Mantle, Louis Kronenberger (1899)
"477 (closed January 17, 1942) The Doctor's Dilemma 121 (closed June 21, 1941) The Man Who Came to Dinner 739 (closed July 12, 1941) Watch on the Rhine . ..."

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