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An example is the topological closure operator; in Kuratowski's characterization, axioms K2, K3, K4' correspond to the above defining properties. An example not operating on subsets is the ceiling function, which maps every real number x to the smallest integer that is not smaller than x.
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).
Definition: We say that the function (resp. set-valued function) f is closable in X × Y if there exists a subset D ⊆ X containing S and a function (resp. set-valued function) F : D → Y whose graph is equal to the closure of the set Gr f in X × Y. Such an F is called a closure of f in X × Y, is denoted by f, and necessarily extends f.
Convex hull (red) of a polygon (yellow). The usual set closure from topology is a closure operator. Other examples include the linear span of a subset of a vector space, the convex hull or affine hull of a subset of a vector space or the lower semicontinuous hull ¯ of a function : {}, where is e.g. a normed space, defined implicitly (¯) = ¯, where is the epigraph of a function .
While the use of anonymous functions is perhaps not common with currying, it still can be used. In the above example, the function divisor generates functions with a specified divisor. The functions half and third curry the divide function with a fixed divisor. The divisor function also forms a closure by binding the variable d.
The usual proof of the closed graph theorem employs the open mapping theorem.It simply uses a general recipe of obtaining the closed graph theorem from the open mapping theorem; see closed graph theorem § Relation to the open mapping theorem (this deduction is formal and does not use linearity; the linearity is needed to appeal to the open mapping theorem which relies on the linearity.)
The quadratic formula =. is a closed form of the solutions to the general quadratic equation + + =. More generally, in the context of polynomial equations, a closed form of a solution is a solution in radicals; that is, a closed-form expression for which the allowed functions are only n th-roots and field operations (+,,, /).
An example of non-compact is the real line, which allows the discontinuous function with closed graph () = {,. Also, closed linear operators in functional analysis (linear operators with closed graphs) are typically not continuous.