endpoint

Plural: endpoints

Noun

• One of two points marking the boundary of a line segment.
• a place where something ends or is complete
• Either of the two points at the ends of a line segment.
• The point in speech at which an utterance ends.
• 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.
• The entity at one end of a connection.
• Part of a system that serves as a hook, allowing third-party code to intercept and modify behaviour at that point.
• Either of the two nodes of a graph of degree 1.

Verb

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

Examples

• Placing ENDPOINT on the board, she secured a crucial triple word score at the very edge of the Scrabble game.

Synonyms

end point, termination, terminus