endpoint

English

Alternative forms

end point

Etymology

From end +‎ point.

Pronunciation

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Noun

endpoint (plural endpoints)

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

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, extremo (es) m
Tagalog: dulong tuldok, upong
Turkish: bitim noktası, bitiş noktası
Vietnamese: đầu mút, mút (vi)

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 (es) m

entity at one end of a connection

Chinese:
Mandarin: 終端 / 终端 (zh) (zhōngduān)
Finnish: päätepiste (fi)
Spanish: punto final (es) 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)

(transitive, linguistics, phonetics, speech recognition) To detect the endpoint of an utterance.
(transitive, chemistry) To determine an endpoint in a titration process.