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End launch
An end launch is a ship launching method in which a vessel slides end-on, normally stern first, down greased inclined slipways, and was dominant worldwide until drydock building spread in the 1960s.
End mill
An end mill is a rotating milling cutter with cutting edges on both its end and periphery, the standard tool for slots, pockets, and shoulders.
End milling
End milling is a machining process using a rotating cutter with cutting edges on its bottom face and circumference to produce slots, pockets, contours, and profiles.
End of August
End of August is a 2026 song by Noah Kahan, also called "Endin' of August", opening his fourth album The Great Divide. Piano-led folk-pop about late-summer Vermont; peaked at No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and went viral on TikTok.
End of Beginning
End of Beginning is a 2022 song by Djo, the stage name of Stranger Things actor Joe Keery, from the album Decide. Written by Keery and co-produced with Adam Thein, it went viral on TikTok in 2024 and again in 2026, topping the UK and Spotify Global charts with over 3 billion streams.
End of Days (film)
End of Days is a 1999 American action horror film directed by Peter Hyams, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as bodyguard Jericho Cane protecting Robin Tunney's character from Gabriel Byrne's Satan before the millennium; released November 24, 1999 by Universal, grossing about $212 million worldwide.
End of Dennard scaling
The end of Dennard scaling is the breakdown, in the early to mid-2000s, of the 1974 MOSFET scaling rules, after which rising power density pushed multicore chips.
End of history
The end of history is Francis Fukuyama's 1989 thesis, expanded in his 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man, that liberal democracy is the final form of government; debated against Huntington's clash of civilizations and contested by later events.
End of Roman rule in Britain
End of Roman rule in Britain: the passage of Roman Britain (Britannia) from imperial control, conventionally dated AD 410. Key events: Constantine III's 407 removal of troops, the 409 expulsion of Roman officials, and Honorius's 410 rescript.
End of Summer
End of Summer (Slutet på sommaren) is a six-part Swedish psychological thriller series in which a therapist reopens the case of her brother's 1984 disappearance after a patient recalls matching memories.
End of Summer (song)
"End of Summer" is a seven-minute 2025 single by Tame Impala (Kevin Parker), his Columbia Records debut, inspired by acid house and bush doofs; later the closing track of the album Deadbeat.
End of the A-Group
The end of the A-Group is the disappearance, or transformation, of Lower Nubia's earliest named archaeological culture around 2900-2800 BC, coinciding with halted Egyptian exchange and First Dynasty expansion.
End of the Century
End of the Century, the Ramones' fifth studio album (1980, Sire), produced by Phil Spector at Gold Star Studios; their highest-charting US album at No. 44, with the UK No. 8 hit "Baby, I Love You."
End of the Fatimid caliphate
The end of the Fatimid caliphate (انتهاء الدولة الفاطمية) came in 1171, when Saladin, vizier to the last caliph al-'Adid, had the Friday sermon in Cairo pronounced for the Abbasid caliph al-Mustadi.
End of the golden age of aviation
The end of the golden age of aviation came in the late 1930s, as the Hindenburg disaster ended passenger airships and rearmament absorbed the industry.
End of the Kingdom of Kush
The end of the Kingdom of Kush was the dissolution of the Meroitic state around AD 300–350, traditionally linked to Ezana of Aksum's conquest of Meroë.
End of the Line (Traveling Wilburys song)
"End of the Line" is a 1988 Traveling Wilburys song, the closing track of Vol. 1, written mainly by George Harrison, released as their second single in January 1989, and known for its music video tribute to the late Roy Orbison.
End of the Road World Tour
KISS's End of the Road World Tour (2019–2023), the band's second farewell tour after 2000–2001, announced September 2018, opened in Vancouver, ended at Madison Square Garden with digital avatar reveal.
End of the World (Miley Cyrus song)
"End of the World" (April 3, 2025) is a disco-pop song by Miley Cyrus and the lead single from her ninth album Something Beautiful, co-written with Alvvays' Molly Rankin and Alec O'Hanley, peaking at #23 UK and #52 Billboard Hot 100.
End of Watch
End of Watch is a 2012 American action crime drama written and directed by David Ayer, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña as LAPD partners patrolling South Central Los Angeles.
End of Watch (novel)
End of Watch (2016), Stephen King's Scribner novel, concludes the Bill Hodges Trilogy after Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers: killer Brady Hartsfield awakens with new powers and drives victims to suicide via a hijacked Zappit console.
End of World War II in Europe
End of World War II in Europe: Germany's unconditional surrender signed at Reims May 7, 1945 (Jodl) and Berlin May 8 (Keitel); ceasefire 2301 CET May 8; V-E Day May 8, Soviet Victory Day May 9.
End of You (song)
"End of You" is a 2025 collaborative metal single by Poppy, Amy Lee (Evanescence), and Courtney LaPlante (Spiritbox), released via Sumerian Records, produced by Jordan Fish, and the first three-women-led song to top Billboard's Mainstream Rock Airplay chart.
End SARS
#EndSARS is Nigeria's decentralized youth-led movement against police brutality, launched on social media in 2017 and peaking in October 2020 protests that forced the disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), followed by the Lekki toll gate shooting.
End terminal
An end terminal, also called a guardrail end terminal, is the device fitted to the exposed end of a W-beam guardrail to anchor the rail and manage crashes.
End user
An end user is the person who actually uses a product, system, or service, as distinct from the people who buy, build, administer, or resell it.
End-group analysis
End-group analysis is an analytical chemistry method that determines a polymer's number-average molar mass by measuring the concentration of chemical groups at the ends of its chains.
End-of-life care
End-of-life care is support and medical care for people approaching death, spanning home, care home, hospital, and hospice settings. Also called terminal care within palliative care; key facts include WHO's 14% global palliative access estimate and US hospice serving 1.4 million Medicare patients in 2015.
End-of-train device
An end-of-train device, also called a flashing rear-end device (FRED), is a radio-equipped unit on the rear of North American freight trains that replaced the caboose.
End-plate potential
End-plate potential (EPP), the graded depolarization of skeletal muscle at the neuromuscular junction, produced by acetylcholine release; built from about 200 quantal units (MEPPs, first recorded by Fatt and Katz), triggers the muscle action potential unless reduced, as in myasthenia gravis.