1. Receiving equipment and associated multiplexers that are located at the ends of a link. 2. The station beyond which a given message is not routed, i.e., the last station in a sequence of stations used in routing a message from the message originator to the message receiver, i.e., the addressee. See also addressee,  link,  location,  message,  message originator,  message receiver,  multiplexer,  route,  routing,  sequence,  station,  terminal.