Usually means: System with no external exchange.
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General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. closed-system: Wordnik
  2. closed system: Wiktionary
  3. closed system: Infoplease Dictionary
  4. closed system: Dictionary.com
  5. Closed system (control theory), Closed system: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. closed system: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Closed System: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. closed system: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. closed system: Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Misunderstood Physics Terms (No longer online)
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  3. Closed System: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. closed system: Anthropological Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. closed system: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. SYSTEM, CLOSED: Power Engineering

Definitions from Wiktionary (closed system)

noun:  (physics, physical chemistry, engineering) A physical system whose interaction with its environment is limited to particular types of transfer, so that certain quantities are conserved within the system.
noun:  (thermodynamics) A system that can exchange heat and work, but not matter, with its surroundings.

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