present participle of sell past the close

simple past tense and past participle of sell past the close

To continue trying to convince a customer of the benefits of making a purchase after the customer has already decided to make that purchase; to oversell.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sell past the close

A chess game in which the queen's pawn advances two spaces in the first ply move, but not in the second ply move.

plural of semi-closed game

blood circulation via the pumping of the heart pushing blood through closed vessels

(science fiction) A chain of events in which someone or something time travels to the past as a means to fulfill their role in the history exactly as it already happened, thus implying impossibility to change the past.

plural of closed time loop

(physics) A worldline that returns to its starting point.