Dictionary Definition
conclusion
Noun
1 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" [syn: decision, determination]
2 an intuitive assumption; "jump to a
conclusion"
3 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" [syn: stopping
point, finale,
finis, finish, last, close]
4 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" [syn: ending, finish] [ant: beginning]
5 the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning
(such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor
premises of a syllogism) [syn: ratiocination]
6 the act of ending something; "the termination
of the agreement" [syn: termination, ending]
7 a final settlement; "the conclusion of a
business deal"; "the conclusion of the peace treaty"
8 the last section of a communication; "in
conclusion I want to say..." [syn: end, close, closing, ending]
9 the act of making up your mind about something;
"the burden of decision was his"; "he drew his conclusions quickly"
[syn: decision,
determination]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From Old (and modern) French conclusion, or Latin conclusio, from the past participle stem of concludere ‘conclude’.Pronunciation
/kənˈklu:ʒən/Noun
Translations
end, final part
outcome
decision, judgment
- Czech: závěr
- Dutch: besluit, conclusie
- Finnish: ratkaisu, johtopäätös, päätelmä
- German: Schlussfolgerung
- Japanese: (, ketsuron)
of a syllogism
- Czech: závěr
- Dutch: logisch gevolg, conclusie
- Finnish: johtopäätös, päätelmä
- German: logische Schlussfolgerung , Vernunftsschluss , Folgerung
- Japanese: (, ketsuron)
Related terms
French
Pronunciation
/kɔ̃klyzjɔ̃/Noun
fr-noun fRelated terms
Extensive Definition
A conclusion is a proposition, which is
arrived at after the consideration of evidence, arguments or premises.
Logic
main article Logical
consequence
In a mathematical
proof or a syllogism, a conclusion is a
statement that is the logical consequence of preceding statements.
It can also be at the end of a speech.
Informal logic
In both formal and
informal
logic, a main contention is a thought which is capable of being
either true or false and is usually the most controversial
proposition being argued for. In reasoning, a main contention is
represented by the top of an argument
map, with all supporting and objecting premises which bear upon
it placed underneath. A main contention is given a different order
and is placed at the start of an argument and not at the end.
Creative Writing
Music
In music a conclusion is a musical theme which releases musical tension after an initial build up, this often occurs as a cadence at the very end of a composition.conclusion in German: Fazit
conclusion in Spanish: Conclusión
conclusion in French: Conclusion
conclusion in Dutch: Conclusie
conclusion in Norwegian: Konklusjon
conclusion in Portuguese: Conclusão
conclusion in Swedish: Slutsats
conclusion in Tagalog: Katapusang
pangungusap
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
PS,
Parthian shot, Z, accommodation, addendum, adjustment, affirmance, affirmation, aftermath, afterthought, allegation, announcement, annunciation, apodosis, appendix, arrangement, assertion, asseveration, assumption, attitude, averment, avouchment, avowal, back matter, bitter end,
catastrophe,
cease, ceasing, cessation, chorus, clear, climate of opinion,
climax, close, closing, closure, coda, codicil, cogent, colophon, common belief,
community sentiment, compelling, completing, completion, conceit, concept, conception, conclusive, consensus
gentium, consequence, consequent, consideration, consummation, continuance, continuation, convincing, corollary, crack of doom,
creed, culmination, curtain, curtains, death, decease, deciding, decisive, declaration, deduction, definitive, denouement, derivation, descendant, desistance, destination, destiny, determinant, determinate, determination, determinative, dictum, doom, double take, dying words,
dynasty, effect, end, end point, end result, ending, enunciation, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, estimate, estimation, ethos, expiration, eye, fate, feeling, final result, final
solution, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finis, finish, finishing, follow-through,
follow-up, full development, general belief, goal, heir, idea, illation, impression, incontrovertible,
induction, inference, ipse dixit,
irrefragable,
irrefutable,
izzard, judgment, last, last act, last breath, last
gasp, last things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, lights, line, lineage, manifesto, maturation, maturity, mind, mystique, notion, observation, offspring, omega, opinion, parting shot, payoff, perfection, period, peroration, personal
judgment, point of view, popular belief, position, position paper,
positive declaration, posterity, postface, postfix, postlude, postscript, posture, precise, predicate, predication, presumption, prevailing
belief, proclamation, profession, pronouncement, proposition, protest, protestation, public
belief, public opinion, quietus, ratiocination, reaction, refrain, resolution, resting place,
ripeness, rounding off,
rounding out, say, say-so,
saying, sealing, second thought,
sentiment, sequel, sequela, sequelae, sequelant, sequent, sequitur, settlement, sight, signature, signing, solemnization, stance, stand, statement, stop, stoppage, stopping place,
subscript, successor, suffix, supplement, swan song,
tag, telling, term, terminal, termination, terminus, theory, thinking, thought, topping off, unambiguous, unanswerable, utterance, view, vouch, way of thinking, windup, word