closed
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Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kləʊzd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /kloʊzd/
Audio (General American): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊzd
Adjective
closed (not comparable)
- Sealed, made inaccessible or impassable; not open.
- A closed and locked door prevented my escape.
- 2005, Pamela J. Carter, Susan Lewsen, Lippincott's Textbook for Nursing Assistants, page 277:
- When the top sheet, blanket, and bedspread of a closed bed are turned back, or fanfolded, the closed bed becomes an open bed, or a bed ready to receive a patient or resident.
- (engineering, gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) To be in a position preventing fluid from flowing.
- (electricity, of a switch or circuit breaker) To be in a position allowing electricity to flow.
- (of a store or business) Not operating or conducting trade.
- Not public.
- closed source a closed committee The bill is being considered by the committee in closed session.
- (topology, of a set) Having an open complement.
- (mathematics, of a set) Such that its image under the specified operation is contained in it.
- The set of integers is closed under addition: .
- (mathematics, logic, of a formula) Lacking a free variable.
- (graph theory, of a walk) Whose first and last vertices are the same, forming a closed loop.
- (phonology) Formed by closing the mouth and nose passages completely, like the consonants /t/, /d/, and /p/.
- (phonology) Having the sound cut off sharply by a following consonant, like the /ɪ/ in pin.
- (of a multi-word compound) Having component words joined together without spaces or hyphens; for example, timeslot as opposed to time slot or time-slot.
Synonyms
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “also phonetics (of vowels, syllables)”): open
Derived terms
- a closed mouth catches no flies
- a closed mouth doesn't get fed
- a closed mouth gathers no feet
- algebraically closed
- behind closed doors
- bicartesian closed category
- biclosed
- Cartesian closed category
- case closed
- clopen
- closed adoption
- closed assembly time
- closed-back
- closed ball
- closed beta
- closed-book
- closed book
- closed campus
- closed caption
- closed-captioned
- closed captioning
- closed casket
- closed-circuit
- closed circuit
- closed-circuit television
- closed circulatory system
- closed city
- closed class
- closed compound
- closed-concept
- closed currency
- closed curve
- closed-cut valley
- closed cut valley
- closed door
- closed e
- closed-ear
- closed-eared
- closed-end fund
- closed feedwater heater
- closed file
- closed form
- closed formula
- closed interval
- closed loop
- closed matte
- closed-minded
- closedminded
- closed-mindedly
- closed-mindedness
- closedness
- closed o
- closed order
- closed period
- closed question
- closed season
- closed set
- closed shop
- closed-source
- closed species
- closed syllable
- closed system
- closed timelike curve
- closed time loop
- closed-toe
- closed town
- closed visit
- coclosed
- demiclosed
- integrally closed
- nonclosed
- open-closed principle
- pluriclosed
- regular closed
- semiclosed
- semi-closed game
- unclosed
- with closed doors
- with one's eyes closed
Translations
not open
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not operating or conducting trade
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not public
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having an open complement
in mathematics, such that its image under the specified operation is contained in it
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See also
Verb
closed
- simple past and past participle of close
Anagrams
Pronunciation
Noun
closed m (plural closedau)
- Alternative form of closet
Mutation
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