closed
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
closed/kləʊzd/
▶adjective
- 1 not open or allowing access.
■ not open to all: the UN Security Council met in closed session.
- 2 not communicating with or influenced by others: a closed society.
- 3 Mathematics (of a set) having the property that the result of a specified operation on any element of the set is itself a member of the set.
- 4 Geometry (of a curve or figure) formed from a single unbroken line.
- 5 Phonetics (of a syllable) ending in a consonant.
– phrases
behind closed doors taking place secretly.
a closed book a subject or person about which one knows nothing.
behind closed doors taking place secretly.
a closed book a subject or person about which one knows nothing.
'closed' also found in these Oxford entries:
ball valve
- bank holiday
- bleed
- blind
- braise
- Bronx cheer
- bypass
- CCTV
- circulate
- clarence
- cleistogamy
- close
- closed caption
- closed-circuit television
- closed-end
- closed season
- closed shop
- close season
- coach
- continuant
- cul-de-sac
- cyclic
- cyclize
- diptych
- diversion
- duffel bag
- executive session
- eyelid
- flap valve
- floodgate
- fly
- gateway
- glovebox
- go
- henry
- hum
- Klein bottle
- laryngeal
- latch
- linear accelerator
- lock
- malocclusion
- mare clausum
- mum
- needle valve
- night safe
- numerus clausus
- occlusion
- open
