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Vertex   /vˈərtˌɛks/   Listen
Vertex

noun
(pl. E. vertexes, L. vertices)
1.
The point of intersection of lines or the point opposite the base of a figure.
2.
The highest point (of something).  Synonyms: acme, apex, peak.






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"Vertex" Quotes from Famous Books



... manager of a theatre, preparing to exhibit an extraordinary show. He spread upon the table an enormous paper which reproduced all the features of the plain extended before them—roads, towns, fields, heights and valleys. Upon this map was a triangular group of red lines in the form of an open fan; the vertex represented the place where they were, and the broad part of the triangle was the limit of the horizon which they were sweeping with ...
— The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... pauca Martialis hortis Hesperidum beatiora longo Ianiculi iugo recumbunt: lati collibus imminent recessus et planus modico tumore vertex caelo perfruitur sereniore et curvas nebula tegente valles solus luce nitet peculiari: puris leniter admoventur astris celsae culmina delicata villae. hinc septem dominos videre montes et totam licet aestimare Romam, Albanos quoque Tusculosque ...
— Post-Augustan Poetry - From Seneca to Juvenal • H.E. Butler

... Berry Brow. It is situated on the right-hand side of the street coming from Huddersfield; being on lower ground than the road, it has from this point a stunted appearance. Pursuing the decline and curve of the street a little further brings you to the vertex of a triangle of level ground, on the base of which the chapel stands. It is fronted by a graveyard, whose two sides gradually converge towards a little iron gateway at ...
— Little Abe - Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow • F. Jewell

... sunset, about the months of March, April and May, as a cone or lenticularly-shaped light extending from the horizon obliquely upwards, and following generally the course of the ecliptic, or rather that of the sun's equator. The apparent angular distance of its vertex from the sun varies, according to circumstances, from 40 deg. to 90 deg., and the breadth of its base perpendicular to its axis from 8 deg. to 30 deg. It is extremely faint and ill-defined, at least in this climate, though better seen in ...
— Aether and Gravitation • William George Hooper

... Triangle in the middle class is not without its dangers; if to run against a Working Man involves a gash; if collision with an Officer of the military class necessitates a serious wound; if a mere touch from the vertex of a Private Soldier brings with it danger of death;—what can it be to run against a woman, except absolute and immediate destruction? And when a Woman is invisible, or visible only as a dim sub-lustrous point, how difficult must it be, even for ...
— Flatland • Edwin A. Abbott

... top of the same kind as that used by Mr Elliot, to illustrate precession*. The body of the instrument is a hollow cone of wood, rising from a ring, 7 inches in diameter and 1 inch thick. An iron axis, 8 inches long, screws into the vertex of the cone. The lower extremity has a point of hard steel, which rests in an agate cup, and forms the support of the instrument. An iron nut, three ounces in weight, is made to screw on the axis, and to be fixed at any point; and in the wooden ring are screwed four bolts, of three ounces, working ...
— Five of Maxwell's Papers • James Clerk Maxwell

... Mundus, ut ad Scythiam Rhipaeasque arduus arces Consurgit, premitur Libyae devexus in austros. Hic vertex nobis semper sublimis; at illum Sub pedibus Styx atra videt ...
— The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) - with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest • John Fiske

... frequently seen developing with advancing years, and may consist merely of a general thinning, or, more commonly a general thinning with a more or less complete baldness of the temporal and anterior portion or of the vertex of the scalp. ...
— Essentials of Diseases of the Skin • Henry Weightman Stelwagon

... A E moves to the position A' E over the surface of a cone having E P' as axis, and E as vertex; but for any small part of its motion, the effect is the same as though it traveled in a plane through E, touching this cone; and the sum of the effects should clearly be proportioned to the sum of ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 • Various



Words linked to "Vertex" :   acme, crown, point of intersection, intersection point, extremum, roof peak, extreme, extreme point, intersection, peak, apex



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