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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.

End-to-end autonomous driving

End-to-end autonomous driving is an approach in which one machine learning system maps raw sensor input directly to a vehicle's control signals, first demonstrated by ALVINN in 1989.

End-to-end encryption

End-to-end encryption (E2EE) is a communications arrangement in which data is encrypted on the sender's device and can be decrypted only on the recipient's, so service providers see only ciphertext.

End-to-end principle

The end-to-end principle, also called the end-to-end argument, is a design principle for distributed systems holding that certain functions belong at the endpoints, not the network.

End-to-side anastomosis

End-to-side anastomosis is a surgical technique that joins the end of one vessel or bowel segment to a window in the side of another, preserving distal blood flow.

End-user license agreement

An end-user license agreement (EULA) is a contract between a software publisher and the user, granting a license to install and use the program rather than selling the copy.

Enda Cerqos

Enda Cerqos, also printed Endā Qirqos, is a three-aisled Aksumite basilica with a walk-in baptistery, standing on an older mound at Ḥawəlti-Melazo near Aksum, Ethiopia.

Enda Kenny

Enda Kenny (born 1951, Islandeady, Co. Mayo) is an Irish former Fine Gael leader (2002–2017) and Taoiseach (2011–2017), TD for Mayo from 1975, later chair of Ireland for Law.

Enda Mikael

Enda Mikael is an Aksumite elite structure, conventionally called a palace, in western Aksum, Ethiopia, built before the seventh century and named for a church of Saint Michael at the site.

Endacopia

Endacopia is a 2026 point-and-click puzzle adventure with psychological horror by Andyland, released July 27, 2026 on Steam for $16.50. Players guide Mellow, a boy who lost his senses, through a surreal edutainment-styled world with first-person boxing fights and four endings.

Endal

Endal (13 December 1995 – 13 March 2009) was a yellow Labrador assistance dog of Gulf War veteran Allen Parton; among the first PDSA Gold Medal recipients (2002) and Dogs Today's "Dog of the Millennium".

Endangered language

Endangered language: a language at risk of falling out of use when children stop learning it. Also called language endangerment, assessed by UNESCO and EGIDS scales; roughly 16-24% of the world's ~7,000 languages lack intergenerational transmission, and revitalization uses immersion, language nests, and documentation.

Endangered Language Fund

Endangered Language Fund (ELF), US 501(c)(3) founded 1996 by Doug Whalen; Language Legacies grants (~$2,000) for documentation and revitalization, Native Voices Endowment, MKARL Fund, Sharing Language Diversity Fellowship up to $30,000.

Endangered Languages Project

Endangered Languages Project (ELP), endangeredlanguages.com, a U.S. nonprofit founded 2012 with Google.org and First Peoples' Cultural Council, supporting Indigenous language revitalization via the ELCat catalogue, LEI vitality index, and the free Ready to Revitalize course.

Endangered species

Endangered species face high extinction risk; classified via the IUCN Red List's nine categories (49,505 of 175,909 assessed species threatened) and protected under laws like the 1973 US Endangered Species Act, with recovery plans, delisting criteria, and uneven funding.

Endarterectomy

Endarterectomy is an operation that removes atherosclerotic plaque from an artery's inner lining to restore blood flow, most often in the carotid artery to prevent stroke.

Endaruta

Endaruta, also read Intaruta, was ruler of the Canaanite city-state of Akshapa, biblical Achshaph, near Acco in western Galilee, in the mid-14th century BC, known from three Amarna letters.

Endeavor (company)

Endeavor Group Holdings is an American sports and entertainment company in Beverly Hills that owns the WME talent agency and, through TKO, the UFC and WWE.

Endeavor 1.0

Endeavor 1.0 is a closed-source large language model released by Flower Labs, a Cambridge University spinout, on September 1, 2026, designed for reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agent work.

Endeavor Air

Endeavor Air, formerly Pinnacle Airlines, is a Minneapolis-based regional airline wholly owned by Delta Air Lines, flying about 150 regional jets as Delta Connection to 122 destinations in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean.

Endeavor BioMedicines

Endeavor BioMedicines is a San Diego, California, clinical-stage biotechnology company developing ENV-101 (taladegib), a Hedgehog pathway inhibitor for lung fibrosis, and ENV-501, a HER3 antibody-drug conjugate.