Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of a collection of items English) Arranged such that each end of a given item is adjacent to one end of a different item. 2 From one end to the other. 3 (context soccer English) Smoothly alternating between attacking and defensive plays.
WordNet
adj. with the end of one object in contact lengthwise with the end of another object
adv. from first to last; "the play was excellent end-to-end" [syn: throughout]
Wikipedia
End-to-end or End to End may refer to:
- Land's End to John o'Groats, the journey from "End to End" across Great Britain
- End-to-end auditable voting systems, a voting system
- End-to-end principle, a principal design element of the Internet
- End-to-end encryption, a cryptographic paradigm involving uninterrupted protection of data traveling between two communicating parties
- A marketing synonym for comprehensive.
Usage examples of "end-to-end".
The ridiculous-looking low-riders with their big whitewall tires and tail fins poking in the air were lined end-to-end in front of the motel.
It was no larger than two old-fashioned tricorders set end-to-end, yet it had the capacity to duplicate any carbon-based biosample introduced to it.
He slammed on the brakes, and the Jeep fishtailed, losing traction in an end-to-end spin, and for a horrified moment he thought he was going to smash into the barrier—he knew he was going to smash—and he spun the wheel frantically, and the Jeep slid to a stop, the headlamps just a foot from the concrete wall.
He slammed on the brakes, and the Jeep fishtailed, losing traction in an end-to-end spin, and for a horrified moment he thought he was going to smash into the barrier-he knew he was going to smash-and he spun the wheel frantically, and the Jeep slid to a stop, the headlamps just a foot from the concrete wall.
But there was no theoretical reason why longer ones couldn't exist: chains of short ones joined end-to-end, a string of linked microspheres looping out into the extra six macroscopic dimensions.
The two modules were squat cylinders, docked end-to-end, punctuated with small round portholes, and coated with thermal insulation, a powdery cloth that was peppered by fist-sized meteorite scars.