endpoint

English

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.
(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.

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)

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