end-to-end adjective3 •Of a collection of items, arranged so that each end of a given item is adjacent to one end of a different item.We laid a long end-to-end row of bricks. •From one end to the other; entire.The end-to-end trip takes about forty minutes.End-to-end encryption involves uninterrupted protection of data traveling between two communicating parties. •Smoothly alternating between attacking and defensive plays.But rather than the end-to-end action of the first half, much of the entertainment took place in the Sunderland third. — 2011