endpoint

English

Etymology

end +‎ point

Pronunciation

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Noun

endpoint (plural endpoints)

1. Either of the two points at the ends of a line segment.
2. (speech recognition) The point in speech at which an utterance ends.
3. (biology, medicine) A defined occurrence during the observation period of an experiment or study.
4. (chemistry) The stage in a titration at which a change in the colour of an indicator indicates that no more titrant should be added.
5. (networking, telecommunications) The entity at one end of a connection.
6. (programming) Part of a system that serves as a hook, allowing third-party code to intercept and modify behaviour at that point.
7. (mathematics) Either of the two nodes of a graph of degree 1.

Alternative forms

• end point

Hypernyms

• point

Translations

either of two points at the end of a line

• Arabic: نقطة نهاية
• Armenian: վերջնակետ (hy) (verǰnaket)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 端點／端点 (zh) (duāndiǎn)

• Finnish: päätepiste (fi)
• French: extrémité (fr) f
• German: Endpunkt (de) m
• Hungarian: végpont (hu)
• Italian: estremo (it) m
• Norwegian: endepunkt n
• Russian: коне́чная то́чка (konéčnaja tóčka)
• Spanish: punto extremo m
• Tagalog: dulong tuldok, upong
• Turkish: bitim noktası, bitiş noktası

a defined occurrence during the observation period of an experiment or study

the stage in a titration at which a change in the colour of an indicator indicates that no more titrant should be added

• Spanish: punto final m

entity at one end of a connection

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 終端／终端 (zh) (zhōngduān)

• Finnish: päätepiste (fi)
• Spanish: punto final m

part of a system that serves as a hook

either of the two nodes of a graph of degree 1

Verb

endpoint (third-person singular simple present endpoints, present participle endpointing, simple past and past participle endpointed)

1. Of a speech recognition system: to detect the endpoint of an utterance.
2. (chemistry) To determine an endpoint in a titration process.

Further reading

• endpoint on Wikipedia.Wikipedia