Final, Finals or The Final may refer to: *

Final examination An examination (exam or evaluation) or test is an educational assessment intended to measure a test-taker's knowledge, skill, aptitude, physical fitness, or classification in many other topics (e.g., beliefs). A test may be administered verba ...

or finals, a test given at the end of a course of study or training *

Final (competition) The final of a competition is the match or round in which the winner of the entire event is decided. Overview In sports competitions following a knockout system, where only two individuals or teams compete in each match, the final is usually playe ...

, the last or championship round of a sporting competition, match, game, or other contest which decides a winner for an event ** Another term for

playoffs The playoffs, play-offs, postseason or finals of a sports league are a competition played after the regular season by the top competitors to determine the league champion or a similar accolade. Depending on the league, the playoffs may be eithe ...

, describing a sequence of contests taking place after a regular season or round-robin tournament, culminating in a final by the first definition.

Art and entertainment

* ''Finals'' (comics), a four-issue comic book mini-series * ''

The Finals ''The Finals'' is a free-to-play first-person shooter, developed and published by Embark Studios. The game focuses on team-based matches on maps with a destructible environment, where players (who are divided into a number of distinct classes) ...

'', a first-person shooter game

Film

* ''Final'' (film), a science fiction film * ''The Final'' (film), a thriller film * ''Finals'' (film), a 2019 Malayalam sports drama film

Music

*Final, a tone of the

Gregorian mode A Gregorian mode (or church mode) is one of the eight systems of pitch organization used in Gregorian chant. History The name of Pope Gregory I was attached to the variety of chant that was to become the dominant variety in medieval western and ...

Final (band) Final is a project of English musician Justin Broadrick, creator of the band Godflesh, which he started when he was 13 years old. Unlike Godflesh, Final is primarily electronic music, electronic in nature, taking on a space-like, dark ambient so ...

, an English electronic musical group *'' Final (Vol. 1)'', 2021 album by Enrique Iglesias **''

Final (Vol. 2) ''Final (Vol. 2)'' is the twelfth and final studio album by Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias. Iglesias announced during a live chat with Ricky Martin and Sebastián Yatra on Instagram on 3 September 2021, that ''Final'' would be the final album of ...

'', 2024 album by Enrique Iglesias * ''The Final'' (album), by Wham! *"The Final", a song by Dir en grey on the album ''

Withering to Death ''Withering to Death'' (stylized as ''Withering to death.'') is the fifth studio album by Japanese heavy metal band Dir En Grey. Initially published in Japan on March 9, 2005, it was the band's first album to be officially released in Europe, N ...

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Final case Final case is used for marking ''final cause'' ("for a house"). Semitic languages had that case, but all of them lost itKarin C Ryding, ''A Reference Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic'', Page 166Google book search 2005. In Arabic, nouns in such pos ...

, a grammatical case *Part of a

syllable A syllable is a basic unit of organization within a sequence of speech sounds, such as within a word, typically defined by linguists as a ''nucleus'' (most often a vowel) with optional sounds before or after that nucleus (''margins'', which are ...

NBA Finals The NBA Finals is the annual championship series of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Eastern Conference (NBA), Eastern and Western Conference (NBA), Western Conference champions play a best-of-seven series to determine the league ...

, the championship competition of the National Basketball Association, known as "The Finals" from 2003 until 2017. *

final (Java) In the Java programming language, the final keyword is used in several contexts to define an entity that can only be assigned once. Once a final variable has been assigned, it always contains the same value. If a final variable holds a reference ...

, a keyword in the Java programming language

Art and entertainment

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