David Morais yes it is still there I think therefore the quotes. as Tony B said I would change it because the word closure is about the enclosed state and not purely about scope and your article is very good.

Nice article, good visualizations. But your explanation of closures is not correct and it happens a lot. You are describing lexical scoping as far as I remember. A closure "closes" the function. function a ( ) { let me = 0 ; function b ( ) { me = 1 ; } return b; } let fA = a(); // function is still "in the memory" fA(); // now it is getting removed "from the memory" The final execution of b() by calling fA() closes a(). So the name isn't even that bad.