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closed system

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does not allow certain types of transfers (such as transfer of mass) in or out of the system

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Encyclopedic overview

A closed system is a natural physical system that does not allow transfer of matter in or out of the system, although the transfer of energy is allowed in the contexts of certain fields (e.g. physics, chemistry, engineering, etc).

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “closed system” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.