end point
nounDefinition of end point
1
: a point marking the completion of a process or stage of a process
especially
: a point in a titration at which a definite effect (such as a color change) is observed
2
usually endpoint \ ˈen(d)-ˌpȯint 
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: either of two points or values that mark the ends of a line segment or interval
also
: a point that marks the end of a ray
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: either of two points or values that mark the ends of a line segment or interval
also
: a point that marks the end of a ray
Examples of end point in a Sentence
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Boynton proposes to extend water and sewer service from their current end points at the Wilson Way. — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, "44-lot subdivision proposed on one of Manchester’s last large parcels," 30 Aug. 2019 Golden From Union Station, take the W-Line light rail to its end point at the Jefferson County Government Center/Golden Station. — Mindy Sink, The Know, "Ditch the car: Trails you can reach by taking the bus or light rail," 6 July 2019 The march’s designated end point, a new, multi-billion-dollar high-speed train station, was similarly deserted Sunday. — Time Staff, Time, "Hong Kong Protesters Try to Drum Up Support Among Mainland Chinese Tourists," 7 July 2019 Every star reaches an end point in its life and goes out in a violent cataclysm. — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, "Scientists Think They've Found a Dead Planetary Core Orbiting a Dead Star," 4 Apr. 2019 Musk posted a video of the breakthrough to his Twitter account, showing off the machine reaching the end point, which the company calls O’Leary Station. — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, "The Boring Company has completed digging its first tunnel," 17 Nov. 2018 In some way, that might be more reassuring because there’s an end point to that. — Eric Johnson, Recode, "Google’s former PR boss Jessica Powell wrote a satirical novel about tech and published it all on Medium," 2 Oct. 2018 In divorce cases, the reference to a relationship's end point. — Jennifer Lance, Glamour, "Your Divorce Glossary: A-to-Z Terms You Need to Know," 26 Nov. 2018 There's also no indication that ECCploit works reliably against end points typically used in cloud environments such as AWS or Microsoft Azure. — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, "Potentially disastrous Rowhammer bitflips can bypass ECC protections," 22 Nov. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'end point.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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