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end point

American  

noun

  1. a final goal or finishing point; terminus.

  2. Chemistry. the point in a titration usually noting the completion of a reaction and marked by a change of some kind, as of the color of an indicator.

  3. Mathematics. endpoint.


end point British  

noun

  1. chem the point at which a titration is complete, usually marked by a change in colour of an indicator

  2. the point at which anything is complete

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of end point

First recorded in 1895–1900

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Perhaps with “Switzy” Ms. Cline has reached the end point of what these claustrophobic dramas can achieve.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Extremism is both the starting point and the end point of a vicious circle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

Five survived to the six-month end point of the trial and their grafts had functional muscle, nerves and blood vessels.

From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026

By contrast, today companies aren’t spending money up front and then sprinting to grow sales, but rather making a small number of sales in between investing huge amounts of capital with no apparent end point.

From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025

And she didn’t remember about the enrabbiting of Glerk or the flowers in her footsteps or the power that was, even now, clicking through its gears, pulsing, pulsing, pulsing inexorably toward its end point.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

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