conclusion

English

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From Old (and modern) French conclusion, or Latin conclusio, from the past participle stem of concludere ‘conclude’.

conclusion (plural conclusions)

The end, finish, close or last part of something.
- Prescott
  A flourish of trumpets announced the conclusion of the contest.
The outcome or result of a process or act.
A decision reached after careful thought.
- Shakespeare
  And the conclusion is, she shall be thine.
The board has come to the conclusion that the proposed takeover would not be in the interest of our shareholders.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page vii
  With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get […] h
(logic) In an argument or syllogism, the proposition that follows as a necessary consequence of the premises.
- Addison
  He granted him both the major and minor, but denied him the conclusion.
(obsolete) An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn.
- Francis Bacon
  We practice likewise all conclusions of grafting and inoculating.
(law) The end or close of a pleading, e.g. the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace", etc.
(law) An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Wharton to this entry?)

end, final part

Bulgarian: край (bg) (kraj) m, завършване (bg) (zavǎršvane) n, приключване (bg) (priključvane) n
Catalan: conclusió (ca) f
Dutch: conclusie (nl), einde (nl)
French: conclusion (fr) f, fin (fr) f
Galician: conclusión (gl) f
German: Schluss (de) m, Ende (de) n
Italian: conclusione (it) f