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noun

Apex n. (pl. E. apexes; L. apices)

The tip, top, point, or angular summit of anything; as, the apex of a mountain, spire, or cone; the apex, or tip, of a leaf.

(Mining) The end or edge of a vein nearest the surface. (U.S.)

Apex of the earth's motion (Astron.), that point of the heavens toward which the earth is moving in its orbit.

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Etymology of 'Apex'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Apex" Quotes from Famous Books

... called to mind other Talayots I had seen before near Mahon and Alayor and Mercadal and Ciudadella, where the entering passage led from aboveground by a rapid incline, and where the cavity, when it existed, had doubtless been near the apex; and from this I took heart, thinking that whether or no there had been a chamber in the upper part of the building, and whether or no it existed still, didn't particularly matter to me. The Diary had certainly pointed to a room ...

— The Recipe for Diamonds • Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne

... and I got it," he said. "Sitting on the apex of the pyramids, I could see the whole world at my feet, and whatever others may say to the contrary, it was there that I began to get a clear view of my future. It seemed to me that from that lofty altitude, chumming, ...

— Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica • John Kendrick Bangs

... Varvara Pavlovna has found hers—in the dramatic productions of Dumas fils. She assiduously frequents the theatre where consumptive and sentimental ladies of the frail class are put on the stage; to be Mme. Doche seems to her the very apex of human felicity; one day, she declared that she desired no better lot for her daughter. It is to be hoped that fate will deliver Mademoiselle Ada from such felicity: from a rosy, plump child, she has turned into a ...

— A Nobleman's Nest • Ivan Turgenieff

... orange groves and olives they saw the hill of Eze rising like a horn; while on its almost pointed apex, the old town hung like some carved fetish, to keep ...

— Rosemary - A Christmas story • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... lightly as a thistle-down the biplane alighted on the small table rock that constituted the apex of grim Old Thunder Top. High cliffs completely surrounding this summit had kept it from ever being reached, up to the time Frank and his cousin landed there, in winning the race for a silver cup; and planted the Stars and Stripes there for the ...

— The Airplane Boys among the Clouds - or, Young Aviators in a Wreck • John Luther Langworthy

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