end point

noun

Definition 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

\ : 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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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. 2018 The video shows a crowd assembled at the end point watching as the machine breaks through. — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, "The Boring Company has completed digging its first tunnel," 17 Nov. 2018 Now, a half century later, the end point of the Atchafalaya’s course to the Gulf is one of only a handful of places on the map of coastal Louisiana where land is actually being built rather than lost. — Nate Berg, Curbed, "Can engineering save Louisiana’s coastline?," 7 Nov. 2018 Most officials expect the Fed would need to raise rates at least three more times next year and at least once more in 2020, leaving rates in a range between 3.25% and 3.5% by the end of 2020, the same end point officials projected in March. — Nick Timiraos, WSJ, "Fed Raises Interest Rates, Sets Stage for Two More Increases in 2018," 13 June 2018

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