• IPA: /kənˈkluːʒən/

conclusion (plural conclusions)

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

   • 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.
   • 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 {{...}

4. (logic) In an argument or syllogism, the proposition that follows as a necessary consequence of the premises.
   • 9 April 1716, Joseph Addison, The Freeloader No. 32

     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.
   • 1626, Francis Bacon, The New Atlantis

     We practice likewise all conclusions of grafting and inoculating.

6. (legal) The end or close of a pleading, e.g. the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace", etc.
7. (legal) An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.

• (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

• conclude
• conclusive

• French: conclusion, fin
• German: Schluss, Ende
• Italian: conclusione
• Portuguese: conclusão
• Spanish: conclusión

• French: conclusion
• German: Abschluss, Ergebnis
• Italian: conclusione
• Portuguese: conclusão
• Spanish: conclusión

• German: Schlussfolgerung
• Italian: conclusione
• Portuguese: conclusão
• Russian: заключе́ние
• Spanish: conclusión

• German: logische Schlussfolgerung f, Vernunftsschluss, Folgerung
• Portuguese: conclusão
• Spanish: conclusión