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  2. Valediction - Wikipedia

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    Not to be confused with malediction. A valediction (derivation from Latin vale dicere, "to say farewell"), [1] or complimentary close in American English, [2] is an expression used to say farewell, especially a word or phrase used to end a letter or message, [3][4] or a speech made at a farewell. [3]

  3. Closure (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    The need for closure in social psychology is thought to be a fairly stable dispositional characteristic that can, nonetheless, be affected by situational factors. The Need for Closure Scale (NFCS) was developed by Arie Kruglanski, Donna Webster, and Adena Klem in 1993 and is designed to operationalize this construct and is presented as a unidimensional instrument possessing strong discriminant ...

  4. Closing argument - Wikipedia

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    A closing argument, summation, or summing up is the concluding statement of each party's counsel reiterating the important arguments for the trier of fact, often the jury, in a court case. A closing argument occurs after the presentation of evidence. A closing argument may not contain any new information and may only use evidence introduced at ...

  5. List of Latin phrases (full) - Wikipedia

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    A legal action for trespass to land; so called because the writ demands the person summoned to answer wherefore he broke the close (quare clausum fregit), i.e., why he entered the plaintiff's land. claves Sancti Petri: the keys of Saint Peter: A symbol of the Papacy. clavis aurea: golden key

  6. Diphthong - Wikipedia

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    In closing diphthongs, the second element is more close than the first (e.g. [ai]); in opening diphthongs, the second element is more open (e.g. [ia]). Closing diphthongs tend to be falling ( [ai̯] ), and opening diphthongs are generally rising ( [i̯a] ), [ 11 ] as open vowels are more sonorous and therefore tend to be more prominent.

  7. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are synonymous. The standard test for synonymy is substitution: one form can be ...

  8. Closing (real estate) - Wikipedia

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    The closing (also called the completion or settlement) is the final step in executing a real estate transaction. It is the last step in purchasing and financing a property. [1] On the closing day, ownership of the property is transferred from the seller to the buyer. In most jurisdictions, ownership is officially transferred when a deed from ...

  9. Closure (computer programming) - Wikipedia

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    The term closure is often used as a synonym for anonymous function, though strictly, an anonymous function is a function literal without a name, while a closure is an instance of a function, a value, whose non-local variables have been bound either to values or to storage locations (depending on the language; see the lexical environment section below).