Definition of End point

1. Noun. A place where something ends or is complete.

Exact synonyms: Endpoint, Termination, Terminus
Generic synonyms: End, Terminal
Derivative terms: Terminate

2. Noun. The final point in a process.
Exact synonyms: Resultant
Generic synonyms: Degree, Level, Point, Stage
Derivative terms: Result, Resultant

Medical Definition of End point

1. It is the completion point during a titration reaction where there are equal amounts of titrant and whatever is being titrated. It is usually evident by the first perceptible alteration of the colour of an added indicator. It is the most dilute an antibody or antiserum solution can be while still detectably reacting with the antigen. A category of data used to compare the outcome in different arms of a clinical trial. Common endpoints are severe toxicity, disease progression or fall in such surrogate markers as CD4 count, but sometimes death is used as an endpoint. (08 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of End Point

end of
end of day
end of quote
end of story
end of terrace
end of the line
end of the road
end of the world
end on
end organ
end oxidation
end pieces
end plate
end plate potential
end point (current term)
end product
end product inhibition
end product repression
end quote
end rhyme
end rhymes
end run
end stage
end state
end table
end times
end up
end user
end user license agreement

Literary usage of End point

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Theory of Functions of a Real Variable and the Theory of Fourier's Series by Ernest William Hobson (1907)
"Neither can P be a common end-point of two ... If a, or b is not an end- point, it is regarded as an external point. It will subsequently be shewn that the ..."

2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1914)
"0.2346 end point unstable 10 20 0.2292 5 i 0.2331 end point unstable 15 20 0.2290 5 2 0.2314 end point unstable 20 20 0.2292 ..."

3. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"The first additions may be made rapidly, decreasing the rate as the end-point is approached. The nature of the end-points varies with the substance titrated ..."

4. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1901)
"3640) shows, on the other hand, that it can always be used as an alternativ» to methyl-orange, over which it has the advantage of a very marked end-point ..."

5. Lectures on the Calculus of Variations by Oskar Bolza (1904)
"SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS FOR A MINIMUM IN THE CASE OF ONE MOVABLE END-POINT The introduction of ... EndPoint."

6. Elements of the Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable: With Especial by Heinrich Durège (1896)
"Therefore, starting from an end-point, we always arrive at another end-point, and, since in the meantime we have passed through only ordinary points, ..."

7. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society by London Mathematical Society (1904)
"interval of {8} of which it is an end-point, but such that throughout it | -Rn+m (x) | < 3e. For the end- points a, b, values of m can be found such that ..."

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