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Conclusion   /kənklˈuʒən/   Listen
Conclusion

noun
1.
A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration.  Synonyms: decision, determination.  "His conclusion took the evidence into account" , "Satisfied with the panel's determination"
2.
An intuitive assumption.
3.
The temporal end; the concluding time.  Synonyms: close, finale, finis, finish, last, stopping point.  "The market was up at the finish" , "They were playing better at the close of the season"
4.
Event whose occurrence ends something.  Synonyms: ending, finish.  "When these final episodes are broadcast it will be the finish of the show"
5.
The proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism).  Synonym: ratiocination.
6.
The act of ending something.  Synonyms: ending, termination.
7.
A final settlement.  "The conclusion of the peace treaty"
8.
The last section of a communication.  Synonyms: close, closing, end, ending.
9.
The act of making up your mind about something.  Synonyms: decision, determination.  "He drew his conclusions quickly"



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"Conclusion" Quotes from Famous Books



... chief was still "not at home." I decided that this was in an "official" sense only, when I caught sight of a woman surveying me cautiously through the crack of the opposite door to the antechamber. I immediately jumped to the conclusion that a woman calling upon a chief of police was regarded as a suspicious character; and rightly, after various shooting incidents in St. Petersburg. My suspicions were confirmed by my memory of the fact that I had been told that ...
— Russian Rambles • Isabel F. Hapgood
... a test of merit? Rigorously considered it is an absolute test. Nor is such a conclusion shaken by the undeniable fact that temporary applause is often secured by works which have no lasting value. For we must always ask, What is the nature of the applause, and from what circles does it rise? A work which ...
— The Principles of Success in Literature • George Henry Lewes
... accountable being. His religious susceptibilities invite to the most diligent culture, and virtually enjoin it upon every teacher. The simple study of man's moral nature, before we open the Bible, unavoidably leads to the conclusion that any system of popular education must be extremely defective which does not make special prevision for this ...
— Popular Education - For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes • Ira Mayhew
... swim, it appears to me like a dream, and I begin to doubt its reality; yet all the incidents are vividly impressed on my mind, and I recollect perfectly the scenery, the actors, and what was said. So I come to the conclusion that it ...
— The Wanderers - Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco • W.H.G. Kingston
... case, especially with practical men, who rarely have either leisure or inclination to recall the workings of their own minds, or observe the intellectual process by which they have been conducted to any conclusion. By what they are prone to consider as a kind of instinct—if by chance they are philosophers, and delight in what old Wilson, the essayist, calls 'inkhorn terms,' they designate it 'intuition'—they arrive at a truth, but have no ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 439 - Volume 17, New Series, May 29, 1852 • Various


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