endpoint

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. (networking, telecommunications) The entity at one end of a connection.
5. (programming) Part of a system that serves as a hook, allowing third-party code to intercept and modify behaviour at that point.
6. (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) Tagalog: dulong tuldok, upong Turkish: bitim noktası, bitiş noktası

entity at one end of a connection

Chinese: Mandarin: 終端／终端 (zh) (zhōngduān) Finnish: päätepiste (fi)

Further reading

• endpoint on Wikipedia.Wikipedia