conclusion

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

At the end of the seventh hour, a flourish of trumpets announced the conclusion of the contest; […]

Some have recently questioned whether conclusion of a START treaty is a lower priority for the Bush Administration than conclusion of a conventional force in Europe (CFE) treaty or whether we want to delay START pending progress in CFE.

The outcome or result of a process or act.

A decision reached after careful thought.

The board has come to the conclusion that the proposed takeover would not be in the interest of our shareholders.

[I]n her boſome Ile vnclaſpe my heart, / And take her hearing priſoner with the force / And ſtrong incounter of my amorous tale: / Then after to her father will I breake, / And the concluſion is, ſhe ſhal be thine, [...]

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

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

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

[W]ee practiſe likewise all Concluſions of Grafting, and Inoculating, as well of VVilde-Trees, as Fruit-Trees, which produceth many Effects.