codas

noun

A person born hearing to deaf parents.

1. A passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.
2. The optional final part of a syllable, placed 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. A conclusion (of a statement or event, for example), final portion, tail end.