endpoint

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Other forms: endpoints

An endpoint is one particular address an interface answers on. Call the endpoint, a REST endpoint, the login endpoint.

An interface is a set of them, each doing one job at its own address, and documenting each endpoint is most of documenting an interface. In medicine and chemistry an endpoint means something different: the measured result a trial or a titration is aiming at.

Definitions of endpoint

1nounendpointOne particular address an interface answers on.C1
“The app sends the user's name and password to the login endpoint.”

endpoint is an address.

Where it comes from

End plus point. The computing sense dates from the growth of networked interfaces in the 1990s.

From end + point.

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endpoint in the wild

The National Institutes of Health (USA) defines surrogate endpoint as "a biomarker intended to substitute for a clinical endpoint".
Surrogate endpoint
Changes induced by a therapy on a surrogate endpoint are expected to reflect changes in a clinically meaningful endpoint.
Surrogate endpoint
Clinical endpoints or clinical outcomes are outcome measures referring to occurrence of disease, symptom, sign or laboratory abnormality constituting a target outcome in clinical research trials.
Clinical endpoint
The primary endpoint of a clinical trial is the endpoint for which the trial is powered.
Clinical endpoint
There exist tools that allow one to connect and semi-automatically construct a SPARQL query for a SPARQL endpoint, for example ViziQuer.
SPARQL

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