Definition of "finding" []

• Something that has been found. (noun)
• A conclusion reached after examination or investigation: the finding of a grand jury; a coroner's findings. (noun)
• A statement or document containing an authoritative decision or conclusion: a presidential finding that authorized the covert operation. (noun)
• Small tools and materials used by an artisan: a jeweler's findings. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "But their main finding is that the percentage of Americans who drink alcohol is the same as last year, at 64%."
• "At the University he drank wine, though not intemperately, and played cards a great deal, the end of the term finding him with gambling debts of twenty-five hundred dollars."
• "Whatever may have been the extent of psychological knowledge at the time of Plessy v. Ferguson, this finding is amply supported by modern authority."