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🚪 Not shut 📝 Not finished
unclosed

unclosed

6.7
Missing a closing symbol like a parenthesis or tag in code
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈkloʊzd/
  • Specialized
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  • In the old batch-processing days, we'd always attach a card with some at the end, so that the interpreter wouldn't simply quit in a huff if we had left an unclosed ( anywhere.

Examples

  • In coding, it's important to fix unclosed parentheses to avoid errors in the program.

  • Ew, sorry about my unclosed blockquote above.

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  • The programmer forgot to close the unclosed tag in the HTML document, causing display issues on the website.

  • The text editor highlighted the unclosed quotation mark, prompting the user to correct it.

Antonyms

closed
3 1.0

Shut so people cannot go in or see

How Complete

well-formed
  • Specialized
3 4.4
closed
3 1.0
unclosed
  • Specialized
6.7
incomplete
117 3.4

Surface Forms

unclosed positive

Morphology

unclosed = closed (transparent) = un + close + ed

In technical contexts 'closed' means having the required closing symbol; 'un-' negates that, producing a directly understandable meaning 'not closed'.

Etymology

Unclosed comes from the parts un- meaning 'not' and closed from 'close', which means 'to shut'. In writing or code, unclosed describes something that has no ending sign, so an unclosed parenthesis, tag, or quote is 'not closed' and can cause an error.