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Closure N Late Fence French Hedge Latin Close

单词 closure
音标 ['kləuʒə]
解释 n. 关闭;终止
红宝书 【英】 n. 关闭 (a closing or being closed);终止(end; conclusion)
字源 closure (n.)
late 14c., "a barrier, a fence," from Old French closure "enclosure; that which encloses, fastening, hedge, wall, fence," also closture "barrier, division; enclosure, hedge, fence, wall" (12c., Modern French clôture), from Late Latin clausura "lock, fortress, a closing" (source of Italian chiusura), from past participle stem of Latin claudere "to close" (see close (v.)). Sense of "act of closing, bringing to a close" is from early 15c. In legislation, especially "closing or stopping of debate." Sense of "tendency to create ordered and satisfying wholes" is 1924, from Gestalt psychology.
不择手段背单词 无
趣味全助记 【记】close

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