0 a road that is closed at one end, and does not lead anywhere: --
1 If a road or path dead-ends, it is closed at one end, and does not lead anywhere: --
3 a situation that is unlikely to be successful or to make any progress: --
We also found that positive selection could be more efficient in outcrossing than in self-fertilizing species, in agreement with the dead end theory.
There are well-known problems with this approach to representation and no generally accepted solution; this path leads to a dead end.
Others, even among legal positivists, believe that this road inevitably leads to a dead end.
Secondly, in the long run, resorting to debt financing seems to be a dead end to finance retirement systems.
Every route is literally a dead end in this sense.
This migration causes pathological changes, but being without any obvious transmission benefits, is a dead end for the larvae.
The pursuit of a unary natural-duty theory of political obligation, the objection concludes, is a dead end.
This information is recorded as one or more constraints (or nogoods) which aid future search by disallowing the inconsistencies that led to this dead end.