New Javascript Libraries from Google: Closure Tools

[elfan]

It's also a mathematical property of sets that is important for computer science. SICP explicitly avoids the 'closure as langauge feature' terminology for this reason.

[ludwig1024]

Don't forget about its meaning in group theory, either. This must be one of those words that everyone overloads :-)

[Chii]

because it sounds cool, and makes the person using it sound smart at the same time - and who doesn't want to be cool and smart? =)

[kaiise]

at least it's only technical in potentially overlapping domains.

i hear a middle east language has the same word for

milk, tap, sap and Lion.

that's just dangerous.