coda

noun5

1. •
   A passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.
2. •
   The optional final sound of a syllable or word, occurring after its nucleus and usually composed of one or more consonants.

   • The word “salts” has three consonants — /l/, /t/, and /s/ — in its coda, whereas the word “glee” has no coda at all.
3. •
   In seismograms, the gradual return to baseline after a seismic event. The length of the coda can be used to estimate event magnitude, and the shape sometimes reveals details of subsurface structures.
4. •
   (figurative) A conclusion (of a statement or event, for example), final portion, tail end.

   • In gray stormy light, their painted eyes stare out at the Mediterranean—at Homer’s wine-dark sea, at a corridor into modernity. But in memory my walk’s true coda in the Middle East came earlier. — 2014
5. •
   A series of clicks used by sperm whales for communicating with each other.

noun1

1. •
   A person born hearing to deaf parents.