couple vs endpoint

couple

noun
  • That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler. 

  • A small number. 

  • A couple-close. 

  • Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship. 

  • One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple. 

  • Two of the same kind connected or considered together. 

  • A turning effect created by forces that sum to zero in magnitude but produce a non-zero external torque. 

verb
  • To cause (two animals) to copulate, to bring (two animals) together for mating. 

  • To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate. 

  • To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another). 

adj
  • Two or (a) small number of. 

det
  • Two or a few, a small number of. 

endpoint

noun
  • The entity at one end of a connection. 

  • A defined occurrence during the observation period of an experiment or study. 

  • The stage in a titration at which a change in the colour of an indicator indicates that no more titrant should be added. 

  • Part of a system that serves as a hook, allowing third-party code to intercept and modify behaviour at that point. 

  • Either of the two nodes of a graph of degree 1. 

  • Either of the two points at the ends of a line segment. 

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