Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The highest point; the apex or summit.
- noun The highest point of the skull.
- noun The top of the head.
- noun In astrology, the highest point reached in the apparent motion of a celestial body.
- noun The point at which the sides of an angle intersect.
- noun The point on a triangle or pyramid opposite to and farthest away from its base.
- noun A point on a polyhedron common to three or more sides.
- noun A point of maximal curvature on a parabola or hyperbola.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In geometry, the point at which concurrent straights meet.
- noun The highest or principal point; apex; top; crown; summit.
- noun In mathematics, a point of a figure most distant from the center; any convex angle of a polygon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A turning point; the principal or highest point; top; summit; crown; apex.
- noun (Anat.) The top, or crown, of the head.
- noun (Astron.) The zenith, or the point of the heavens directly overhead.
- noun (Math.) The point in any figure opposite to, and farthest from, the base; the terminating point of some particular line or lines in a figure or a curve; the top, or the point opposite the base.
- noun (Math.) the point in which the axis of the curve intersects it.
- noun (Math.) the point in which the sides of the angle meet.
- noun (Math.) the point in which the axis pierces the surface.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The highest point of something.
- noun anatomy The highest
surface on the skull. - noun geometry The common
point of the tworays of theangle , or its equivalent structure inpolyedra (meeting ofedges ) and higher orderpolytopes . - noun mathematics A point on the
curve with a local minimum or maximum ofcurvature . - noun graph theory One of the elements of a
graph joined or not by edges to other vertices. - noun computer graphics A point in
3D space, usually given in terms of itsCartesian coordinates . - noun optics The point where the
surface of alens crosses theoptical axis . - noun An interaction point.
- noun astrology The point where the prime vertical meets the
ecliptic in the westernhemisphere of a natal chart.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the point of intersection of lines or the point opposite the base of a figure
- noun the highest point (of something)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Thus: what we call the vertex of the Brain is really its base and what we call its base is really its vertex, it is simply a question of nomenclature.
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Thus: what we call the vertex of the Brain is really its base and what we call its base is really its vertex, it is simply a question of nomenclature.
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Thus the interior angle at each vertex is either 90° or 270°.
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"What we call the vertex of the Brain is really its base: and what we call its base is really its vertex: it is simply a question of nomenclature."
Sylvie and Bruno Lewis Carroll 1865
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The Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide, DHT promotes both the proliferation of prostate cells and hair loss, and that men who were diagnosed with prostate cancer were more likely to have had bald spots on the tops of their heads, which is referred to as vertex baldness, as opposed to those men who did not have bald spots.
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At the vertex is a medical student named Karlanner (played by Stephen Barker Turner), a kind of emblematic conflicted "good German" - leftishly inclined, living with the Jewish girlfriend who rescued him from alcoholism.
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The brightest star will be identified as the vertex of a right-angled triangle, of which the line from Vega to the Pole Star is the base, as shown in Fig. 91.
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These last move more and more quickly until they reach what is called the vertex of the parabola (the point of such a path which lies nearest to the sun): projectiles, on the contrary, move more and more slowly as they approach the corresponding point of their path; and further, the comet first approaches and then recedes from the centre of attraction -- the projectile first recedes from and then approaches the attracting centre.
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Another is the ability to separate two components called vertex shaders and fragment shaders that previously had to be linked together.
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Another is a feature DirectX programmers already enjoy, the ability to separate two components called vertex shaders and fragment shaders that previously had to be linked together.
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fbharjo commented on the word vertex
a virtual texan??
December 11, 2010