conclusion

• concl. (shortening)

From Old French conclusion, from Latin conclusio, from the past participle stem of concludere (“to conclude”).

• IPA^(key): /kənˈkluːʒən/

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• Rhymes: -uːʒən

conclusion (plural conclusions)

1. The end, finish, close or last part of something.
   • Prescott

     A flourish of trumpets announced the conclusion of the contest.

2. The outcome or result of a process or act.
3. 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[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 […]

4. (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.

5. (obsolete) An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn.
   • Francis Bacon

     We practice likewise all conclusions of grafting and inoculating.

6. (law) The end or close of a pleading, e.g. the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace", etc.
7. (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): endpoint, terminus; see also Thesaurus:finish
• (end of literary work): epilogue, postamble; see also Thesaurus:afterword

• (end): beginning, initiation, start; see also Thesaurus:beginning

• (in logic): premise

• conclude
• conclusive

From Old French, from Latin conclusio, from the past participle stem of concludere (“conclude”).

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃klyzjɔ̃/

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conclusion f (plural conclusions)

1. conclusion

• conclure

• concluions

• “conclusion” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

conclusion (plural conclusiones)

1. conclusion