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English Dictionary: conclusion	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
conclusion n a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration; "a decision unfavorable to the opposition"; "his conclusion took the evidence into account"; "satisfied with the panel's determination" Synonym(s): decision, determination, conclusion an intuitive assumption; "jump to a conclusion" the temporal end; the concluding time; "the stopping point of each round was signaled by a bell"; "the market was up at the finish"; "they were playing better at the close of the season" Synonym(s): stopping point, finale, finis, finish, last, conclusion, close event whose occurrence ends something; "his death marked the ending of an era"; "when these final episodes are broadcast it will be the finish of the show" Synonym(s): ending, conclusion, finish Antonym(s): beginning the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism) Synonym(s): conclusion, ratiocination the act of ending something; "the termination of the agreement" Synonym(s): termination, ending, conclusion a final settlement; "the conclusion of a business deal"; "the conclusion of the peace treaty" the last section of a communication; "in conclusion I want to say..." Synonym(s): conclusion, end, close, closing, ending the act of making up your mind about something; "the burden of decision was his"; "he drew his conclusions quickly" Synonym(s): decision, determination, conclusion
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Conclusion \Conclu"sion\, n. [F., fr. L. conclusio. See {Conclude}.] 1. The last part of anything; close; termination; end. A fluorish of trumpets announced the conclusion* of the contest. --Prescott. 2. Final decision; determination; result. And the conclusion is, she shall be thine. --Shak. 3. Any inference or result of reasoning. 4. (Logic) The inferred proposition of a syllogism; the necessary consequence of the conditions asserted in two related propositions called premises. See {Syllogism}. He granted him both the major and minor, but denied him the conclusion. --Addison. 5. Drawing of inferences. [Poetic] Your wife Octavia, with her modest eyes And still conclusion. --Shak. 6. An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn. [Obs.] We practice likewise all conclusions of grafting and inoculating. --Bacon. 7. (Law) (a) The end or close of a pleading, e.g., the formal ending of an indictment, [bd]against the peace,[b8] etc. (b) An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position. --Wharton. {Conclusion to the country} (Law), the conclusion of a pleading by which a party [bd]puts himself upon the country,[b8] i.e., appeals to the verdict of a jury. --Mozley & W. {In conclusion}. (a) Finally. (b) In short. {To try conclusions}, to make a trial or an experiment. Like the famous ape, To try conclusions, in the basket creep. --Shak. Syn: Inference; deduction; result; consequence; end; decision. See {Inference}.