endpoint

English

Etymology

end +‎ point

Noun

endpoint (plural endpoints)

1. Either of the two points at the ends of a line segment.
2. (biology, medicine) A defined occurrence during the observation period of an experiment or study.
3. (chemistry) The stage in a titration at which a change in the colour of an indicator indicates that no more titrant should be added.
4. (computing, telecommunications) The entity at one end of a connection.
5. (mathematics) Either of the two nodes of a graph of degree 1.

Alternative forms

• end point

Hypernyms

• point

Derived terms

• clinical endpoint
• combined endpoint
• humane endpoint
• surrogate endpoint

Translations

either of two points at the end of a line

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

  Mandarin: 端點 (zh), 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
• Tagalog: dulong tuldok, upong
• Turkish: bitim noktası, bitiş noktası

entity at one end of a connection

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 終端 (zh), 终端 (zh) (zhōngduān)

References

• endpoint on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Spanish

Noun

endpoint m (plural endpoints)

1. endpoint