END POINT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does end point mean? 

• END POINT (noun)
  The noun END POINT has 2 senses:

1. a place where something ends or is complete

2. the final point in a process

  Familiarity information: END POINT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• END POINT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A place where something ends or is complete

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

end point; endpoint; termination; terminus

Hypernyms ("end point" is a kind of...):

end; terminal (either extremity of something that has length)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The final point in a process

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

end point; resultant

Hypernyms ("end point" is a kind of...):

degree; level; point; stage (a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process)

 Context examples 

A series of actions among molecules in a cell that leads to a certain end point or cell function.

(Biochemical Pathway, NCI Dictionary)

Physical map location of a Gene, expressed as either a cytological chromosomal band or by chromosome, start point and end point.

(Map Location Object, NCI Thesaurus)

A data derivation technique used to calculate a subject's analysis end point value.

(Endpoint Value Derivation Technique, NCI Thesaurus)

When it is arrived at D, let the stone be turned upon its axle, till its attracting end points towards E, and then the island will be carried obliquely towards E; where, if the stone be again turned upon its axle till it stands in the position E F, with its repelling point downwards, the island will rise obliquely towards F, where, by directing the attracting end towards G, the island may be carried to G, and from G to H, by turning the stone, so as to make its repelling extremity to point directly downward.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)