WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
cloze
(klōz),USA pronunciation adj.
n.
- Linguisticspertaining to or being a procedure used to measure comprehension or text difficulty, in which a person is called upon to supply elements that have been systematically deleted from a text.
n.
- Linguisticsa cloze procedure or test.
- back formation from closure (def. 10), respelling, respelled to make it distinct from close 1953
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