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According to this thread, the endpoint is the URL where your service can be accessed by a client application.

But, it sounds to me like a kind of server. In that case, an endpoint will be always an URL? what is the difference between an endpoint and a server?

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An endpoint is a URL which allows you to access a (web) service running on a server. A server(program) may actually host multiple such services exposing them through different endpoint.

e.g. To access twitter search API, https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json is the endpoint. But the same server also has another endpoint https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authenticate for authentication. Both the endpoints are hosted on the same server which runs on a machine with domain name twiter.com

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server is something who host your side/data or run multiple services, like php, mysql, etc

end point is where something points like we say end point of phpmyadmin, and might be its a end point of some api. 

api.example.com/getusers
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