Dictionary Definition
closed adj
1 not open or affording passage or access; "the
many closed streets made travel difficult"; "our neighbors peeped
from behind closed curtains" [ant: open]
2 of a curve or surface; having no end points or
boundary curves; of a set; having members that can be produced by a
specific operation on other members of the same set; of an
interval; containing both its endpoints [ant: open]
4 used especially of mouth or eyes; "he sat
quietly with closed eyes"; "his eyes were shut against the
sunlight" [syn: shut] [ant:
open]
5 requiring union membership; "a closed shop"
[syn: closed(a)]
6 with shutters closed
7 not open to the general public; "a closed
meeting"
8 not having an open mind; "a closed mind
unreceptive to new ideas" [syn: unsympathetic]
9 blocked against entry; "a closed porch" [syn:
closed
in(p)]
10 (of the wings of birds and insects) closed
together
11 shut down; "the airport is closed because of
the weather"; "the many closed shops and factories made the town
look deserted"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Adjective
- inaccessible; not open
- non public (as in closed source)
-
- (Topology) a set is closed if its complement is open
- (Algebra) a set is closed under an operation if the outcome for every argument is also in the set itself. (e.g. \forall x,y \in Z:\, x + y \in Z)
See also
Translations
not open (1)
- Albanian: mbyllur
- Arabic: (maqfūl)
- Bulgarian: затворен
- Catalan: tancat
- Croatian: zatvoren
- Dutch: gesloten, dicht, afgesloten, toe
- Finnish: suljettu, kiinni
- French: fermé
- German: geschlossen
- Hebrew: סגור , סגורה
- Hungarian: zárt, zárva
- Italian: chiuso
- Norwegian: lukket
- Pitjantjatjara: pati
- Portuguese: fechado
- Romanian: închis
- Russian: закрытый, замкнутый
- Spanish: cerrado
- Swedish: stängd, sluten
non public (2)
in mathematics (3)
Extensive Definition
Closed may refer to:
Other
- Cloister, a closed walkway
- Closed-circuit television
See also
closed in French: Fermé
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
arcane,
authoritarian,
beyond reach, bigot,
bigoted, blank, blind, blind-alley, borne, cabalistic, cecal, censored, choked, choked off, classified, close, closed forever to, closed
to, concealed,
constricted,
contracted, cramped, creedbound, cryptic, dark, dead, dead-end, deaf, deaf to reason, enigmatic, esoteric, fanatical, hermetic, hidden, hidebound, hush-hush, illiberal, impenetrable, impersuadable, impersuasible, impervious, inaccessible, inflexible, inhospitable, insular, latent, little, little-minded, lost to,
mean, mean-minded,
mean-spirited, mysterious, narrow, narrow-hearted,
narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted, obstinate, occult, out of reach, parochial, petty, provincial, purblind, restricted, secret, shortsighted, shut, small, small-minded, smothered, squeezed shut,
stifled, straitlaced, strangulated, stuffy, suppressed, top secret,
ulterior,
un-come-at-able, unaccessible, unamenable, unapproachable, unattainable, unavailable, unbreatheable, uncatholic, uncharitable, uncordial, under security,
under wraps, undisclosable, undisclosed, undiscoverable, undivulgable, undivulged, unfriendly, ungenerous, ungettable, ungracious, unhospitable, unimpressionable,
uninfluenceable,
unliberal, unmovable, unneighborly, unobtainable, unopen, unopened, unpersuadable, unpliable, unprocurable, unreachable, unreceptive, unresponsive, unrevealable, unrevealed, unsecurable, unspoken, unsuggestible, unsusceptible, unswayable, untellable, untold, unutterable, unuttered, unvented, unventilated, unwhisperable, unyielding