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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Either of two points marking the end of a line segment.
  • noun Chemistry The point in a titration at which no more titrant should be added. It is determined, for example, by a color change in an indicator or by the appearance of a precipitate.
  • noun A tip or point of termination.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In analytic chemistry, the point at which a chemical reaction is completed without excess of either reagent.
  • noun In function-theory, of an interval or path from x0 to x, either of the points x0, x. Also called end-value, of the path.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A point of termination or completion.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Either of the two points at the end of a line segment
  • noun mathematics Either of the two nodes of a graph of degree 1
  • noun chemistry The stage in a titration at which a change in the colour of an indicator indicates that no more titrant should be added
  • noun biology, medicine A defined occurrence during the observation period of an experiment or study.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a place where something ends or is complete
  • noun a place where something ends or is complete
  • noun the final point in a process

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end + point

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