In
mathematics, a closure property refers to the property of a
set being
closed under some operation on its elements, which means that if you apply the operations to elements in the set, the result is also in the set.
Some examples:
- the natural numbers
- are closed under addition and multiplication, but not under subtraction or division
- the regular languages
- are closed under intersection, union, complementation, and pairwise concatenation (X.Y = {x.y | x in X, y in Y}), but not elementwise concatenation (2X = {x.x | x in X })
- mankind
- is closed under multiplication, but not under its converse, unless you are a creationist