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Finis

Finis \Fi"nis\, n. [L.] An end; conclusion. It is often placed at the end of a book.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
finis

Latin, literally "the end" (see finish (v.)). Word often placed 15c.-19c. at the end of a book.

Wiktionary
finis

n. An end (''of a book etc.'')

WordNet
finis
  1. n. 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, finish, last, conclusion, close]

  2. the concluding part of any performance [syn: finale, close, closing curtain]

Wikipedia
Finis (short story)

"Finis" is a short story written by American-Canadian science fiction author Frank Lillie Pollock (sometimes mis-spelled as Frank Lillie Pollack), and published in The Argosy magazine, June 1906. It has been reprinted in magazines, translated, and anthologized numerous times, occasionally under the title "The Last Dawn". The story text is now out of copyright.

"Finis" is the story of a new star that is discovered which turns out to be a new, hotter sun. It is a short, but hard hitting story which shows a man and woman who stay up the night to watch the expected new star arise. Though published in 1906, it is set in the future of the mid 20th century.

Finiș

Finiş is a commune in Bihor County, Romania, two kilometers from the town of Beiuş. It is composed of four villages: Finiş, Fiziş (Füzes), Ioaniş (Körösjánosfalva) and Şuncuiş (Belényessonkolyos).

Finis

Finis may refer to:

  • Finiș, a commune in Bihor County, Romania
  • "Finis" (short story), the 1906 science fiction / horror story by Frank L. Pollack
  • Jefferson Finis Davis, President of the Confederate States of America
  • Chancellor Finis Valorum, a fictional character from the Star Wars franchise

Usage examples of "finis".

Highly providential was the appearance on the scene of Corny Kelleher when Stephen was blissfully unconscious but for that man in the gap turning up at the eleventh hour the finis might have been that he might have been a candidate for the accident ward or, failing that, the bridewell and an appearance in the court next day before Mr Tobias or, he being the solicitor rather, old Wall, he meant to say, or Mahony which simply spelt ruin for a chap when it got bruited about.

Naturally with these records you must guard against drink and smoke, have correct horologii, not lose the initium totalis immersionis, and main­tain correct medium between initium and finis eclipsis, observe the intermediary moments in which the spots are dark, et cetera.

The New York Times, National Public Radio and 60 Minutes, the infotainment flagship of the CBS network, all announced that Robertson and his Coalition were finis, his political machine sunk.