conclusion
See also: conclusión
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- concl. (shortening)
EtymologyEdit
From Old French conclusion, from Latin conclusio, from the past participle stem of concludere (“to conclude”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
conclusion (plural conclusions)
- The end, finish, close or last part of something.
- (Can we date this quote by Prescott and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)
- A flourish of trumpets announced the conclusion of the contest.
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- The outcome or result of a process or act.
- A decision reached after careful thought.
- 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:
- 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[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, 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 […]
- (logic) In an argument or syllogism, the proposition that follows as a necessary consequence of the premises.
- (Can we date this quote by Addison and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)
- He granted him both the major and minor, but denied him the conclusion.
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- (obsolete) An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn.
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- We practice likewise all conclusions of grafting and inoculating.
- (Can we date this quote by Francis Bacon and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)
- (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?)
SynonymsEdit
- (end): endpoint, terminus; see also Thesaurus:finish
- (end of literary work): epilogue, postamble; see also Thesaurus:afterword
AntonymsEdit
- (end): beginning, initiation, start; see also Thesaurus:beginning
Coordinate termsEdit
- (in logic): premise
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TranslationsEdit
end, final part
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outcome
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decision, judgment
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of a syllogism
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FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French, from Latin conclusio, from the past participle stem of concludere (“conclude”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
conclusion f (plural conclusions)
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AnagramsEdit
External linksEdit
- “conclusion” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
InterlinguaEdit
NounEdit
conclusion (plural conclusiones)