conclusion

/kənklˈuʒən/ · 3 syllables

Meaning

noun

a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
“a decision unfavorable to the opposition”
an intuitive assumption
“jump to a conclusion”
the temporal end; the concluding time
“the stopping point of each round was signaled by a bell”
event whose occurrence ends something
“his death marked the ending of an era”
the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism)
the act of ending something
“the termination of the agreement”
a final settlement
“the conclusion of a business deal”
the last section of a communication
“in conclusion I want to say...”
the act of making up your mind about something
“the burden of decision was his”

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