closed
- adjective
- /kloʊzd/
- Specialized
- A closed interval includes both endpoints, making it vital for certain mathematical proofs.
Examples
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Then the closed unit ball is not compact.
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It's the smallest closed set that contains your smaller set, right?
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So H is closed under the group operation.
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Now what about a theory of closed strings that AB initio starts with closed strings?
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I'll spoke can't on the closed interval a comma B OK.
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The closed set, which contains all points of the interval, is essential in topology.
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For the function to be defined over the closed range, both endpoints must be included.
Antonyms
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A set of numbers between two points that does not include the end points
Idioms
- Informal
To do something easily without thinking because you trust or know it well
Compounds
A system of cameras and monitors that records and shows images for security, not for public broadcast
An election to choose a party candidate in which only registered members of the party can vote
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A system that uses feedback to keep things like temperature at the right level
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A model of the universe whose space curves and contains enough matter to stop and reverse its expansion
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A company that sells a set number of shares that trade on the stock market
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A curve with no endpoints that comes back to its starting point, like a circle
A plant with blue or purple flowers shaped like a tube that stay mostly closed
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A sudden eye condition when the colored part blocks fluid leaving the front of the eye, raising eye pressure quickly
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A word from a small fixed set that helps show grammar, like in or and
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A company that issues a fixed number of shares which are traded on a stock market
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A company whose shares are owned by a small group and not sold to the public
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Heart surgery done through a small cut without opening the chest
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A control system that uses information from sensors to adjust itself automatically
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A system that recovers, cleans, and reuses materials to avoid waste
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A curved line on a flat surface that makes a closed loop without crossing itself, like a circle
How Open-ended
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
In math, a closed interval contains its end points, and the name comes from the old Latin claudere meaning 'to shut', so the ends are 'shut in' or included.