Noun

(en noun)

A homogeneous mixture, which may be liquid, gas or solid, formed by dissolving one or more substances.

An act, plan or other means, used or proposed, to solve a problem.

The answer to a problem.

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A product, service or suite thereof.

(legal, UK, archaic, rare) Satisfaction of a claim or debt.

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Noun

(en noun)

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

* Prescott

A flourish of trumpets announced the conclusion of the contest.

The outcome or result of a process or act.

A decision reached after careful thought.

* Shakespeare

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.

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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 geth

(logic) In an argument or syllogism, the proposition that follows as a necessary consequence of the premises.

* Addison

He granted him both the major and minor, but denied him the conclusion .

(obsolete) An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn.

* Francis Bacon

We practice likewise all conclusions of grafting and inoculating.

(legal) The end or close of a pleading, e.g. the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace", etc.

(legal) An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.

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