Conclusion

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Drawing of inferences.

II. Conclusion ·noun Any inference or result of reasoning.

III. Conclusion ·noun Final decision; determination; result.

IV. Conclusion ·noun The last part of anything; close; termination; end.

V. Conclusion ·noun An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn.

VI. Conclusion ·noun An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.

VII. Conclusion ·noun The end or close of a pleading, e.g., the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace," ·etc.

VIII. Conclusion ·noun The inferred proposition of a syllogism; the necessary consequence of the conditions asserted in two related propositions called premises. ·see Syllogism.