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Endgame (人潮汹涌) (2021 film)

Endgame (人潮汹涌) is Rao Xiaozhi's 2021 Chinese crime comedy remake of Japan's Key of Life, starring Andy Lau, Xiao Yang, and Wan Qian; it opened last in the record 2021 Spring Festival slot at 1.51 billion yuan but recovered through word of mouth.

Endgame study

Endgame study (chess composition): a composed position with the stipulation White to play and win or draw, no move limit, legal position, sound unique solution; examples include the Saavedra position and Plaskett's Puzzle.

Endian Firewall

Endian Firewall is a Linux-based firewall and unified threat management distribution by the Italian company Endian SRL, launched in 2004 with a free open source Community edition.

Endianness

Endianness, also called byte ordering, is the convention a computer architecture uses to arrange the bytes of a multi-byte value in memory, as big-endian or little-endian.

Endicott Oil and Gas Field

Endicott, also the Duck Island Unit, is an offshore oil field in the Beaufort Sea on Alaska's North Slope, the first Arctic offshore field, producing since 1987.

Endicott Peabody

Endicott Peabody (1920-1997), Democratic 64th governor of Massachusetts 1963-1965, Harvard-educated Navy Silver Star recipient who beat John Volpe by about 5,400 votes in 1962, lost the 1964 primary to Bellotti, and later ran for Senate against Edward Brooke.

Ending Is the Beginning: The Mitch Lucker Memorial Show

Ending Is the Beginning: The Mitch Lucker Memorial Show, a December 21, 2012 tribute concert at the Fox Theater, Pomona, where Suicide Silence performed with guest vocalists including Randy Blythe and Max Cavalera, raising money for the Kenadee Lucker Education Fund; released 2014 on Century Media.

Endings, Beginnings

Endings, Beginnings is a 2019 drama by Drake Doremus, also called Love Again in some markets, starring Shailene Woodley, Jamie Dornan, and Sebastian Stan; premiered at TIFF 2019, released on VOD April 17, 2020, Metascore 42.

Endless (comics)

The Endless are seven sibling personifications in Neil Gaiman's Sandman comics: Destiny, Death, Dream, Desire, Despair, Destruction, and Delirium, born at the beginning of time, bound by ancient rules, and each ruling a realm of an abstract concept.

Endless (Frank Ocean album)

Endless is Frank Ocean's 45-minute, 18-track visual album released August 19, 2016 on Apple Music, showing him building a staircase; it fulfilled his Def Jam contract and preceded Blonde by one day.

Endless Column

The Endless Column (Coloana fără sfârșit) is a 29.33-meter cast-iron sculpture by Constantin Brâncuși, erected in 1938 at Târgu Jiu, Romania, as the centerpiece of his First World War memorial ensemble.

Endless Field

Endless Field (Cánh đồng bất tận) is a 2005 Vietnamese novella by Nguyễn Ngọc Tư about a duck-herding father, Út Vũ, and children Nương and Điền in the Mekong Delta; censored in 2006, it won ASEAN and Liberaturpreis honors and became the 2010 film The Floating Lives.

Endless Forms Most Beautiful (album)

Endless Forms Most Beautiful is Nightwish's eighth studio album (Nuclear Blast, March 2015), the first with vocalist Floor Jansen and Troy Donockley, a Darwin-inspired concept album on evolution featuring Richard Dawkins, which topped the Finnish chart.

Endless knot

The endless knot, or eternal knot (Tibetan dpal be'u, Chinese 盘长), is one of the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism, a single continuous intertwined line symbolizing interdependence and the Buddha's endless wisdom.

Endless Legend 2

Endless Legend 2 is a fantasy turn-based 4X strategy game by Amplitude Studios, published by Hooded Horse, set on the ocean planet Saiadha. Early Access September 22, 2025; 1.0 September 17, 2026; Tidefall mechanic, six factions plus rogue variants.

Endless Love (1981 film)

Endless Love (1981) is Franco Zeffirelli's romantic drama adapted from Scott Spencer's novel, starring Brooke Shields and Martin Hewitt; critically panned but a box-office success, best known for the nine-week Billboard number-one Diana Ross and Lionel Richie title duet.

Endless Love (2014 film)

Endless Love (2014), Shana Feste's romantic drama remake of the 1981 Brooke Shields film based on Scott Spencer's novel, starring Alex Pettyfer and Gabriella Wilde; grossed $34.7 million worldwide and was panned by critics.

Endless Love (2015 TV series)

Endless Love (Kara Sevda) is a Turkish Star TV romantic drama (2015–2017, Ay Yapım) starring Burak Özçivit and Neslihan Atagül; it won the 2017 International Emmy for Best Telenovela and sold to 110+ countries.

Endless Love (song)

"Endless Love" (song): 1981 pop-soul duet by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie, written and produced by Richie for Franco Zeffirelli's film. Nine weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, the longest Motown run ever, Oscar and Grammy nominated, famously covered by Luther Vandross and Mariah Carey.

Endless Ocean Luminous

Endless Ocean Luminous, known in Japan as Forever Blue Luminous, is a 2024 underwater exploration game for Nintendo Switch and the third Endless Ocean game.

Endless Sky

Endless Sky: free, open-source 2D space trading, exploration, and combat game inspired by Escape Velocity, created by Michael Zahniser, first released v0.7.9 on GitHub in 2015; GPL v3, cross-platform, hundreds of star systems, plugin and galaxy editors.

Endless Summer Vacation

Endless Summer Vacation is Miley Cyrus's eighth studio album, released March 10, 2023 on Columbia. Lead single Flowers spent six weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100; the album hit No. 3 and drew mixed reviews.

Endling

Endling: the last known surviving individual of a species or subspecies, whose death means extinction; also the last of a family line. Coined by Robert Webster and Bruce Erickson in Nature in 1996; famous examples include Martha the passenger pigeon and Lonesome George.

Endling (2025 novel)

Endling is Maria Reva's 2025 debut novel (Doubleday, Virago, Knopf Canada, 352 pp.), a satirical metafiction about a snail scientist, romance tours, kidnapped bachelors, Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and a fake ending; longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize.

Endmember extraction

Endmember extraction is a hyperspectral image analysis method that identifies the pure spectral signatures of materials in a scene, the first step of spectral unmixing.

EndNote

EndNote is a commercial reference management package developed by Clarivate, first released in 1989, that stores references and inserts formatted citations into documents via Cite While You Write.

Endo- and exopeptidase classification

Peptidases are classified on two independent axes: exopeptidases cleave near a chain terminus while endopeptidases act internally, and catalytic mechanism distinguishes serine, cysteine, and other types.

Endo-alpha(1,4)-fucoidanase Mef1

Endo-alpha(1,4)-fucoidanase Mef1 (EC 3.2.1.212, GH107) from Muricauda eckloniae cleaves α(1,4) bonds between C2-sulfated fucose residues in brown-algal fucoidan; Ca2+-dependent, (β/α)8-barrel, His270/Asp187 catalysis, PDB 8BPD.

Endo-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase

Endo-β-N-acetylglucosaminidases (ENGases, EC 3.2.1.96) are GH18 and GH85 glycoside hydrolases from bacteria to humans that cleave the chitobiose core of N-glycans, leaving one GlcNAc on the protein; used in deglycosylation, glycoprotein synthesis, and IgG targeting.

Endo-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase H

Endo-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase H (Endo H, EC 3.2.1.96), a GH18 endoglycosidase from Streptomyces plicatus, cleaves core GlcNAc of high-mannose and some hybrid N-glycans, not complex types, a standard deglycosylation reagent.