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US
/ˈvɝˌtɛks/
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[ UK /vˈɜːtɛks/ ]
[ UK /vˈɜːtɛks/ ]
NOUN
- the point of intersection of lines or the point opposite the base of a figure
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the highest point (of something)
at the peak of the pyramid
How To Use vertex In A Sentence
- Suppose a walker stands at a vertex of a three-dimensional cubic grid.
- The results show that, as fluid passes through each rib, a trumpet-shaped vortex is generated from the upstream vertex of the rib, shaping a region with high value of heat transfer coefficient (HTC).
- 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. A Lost Voice Surfaces From A Sinister Interlude
- The high pure water system is mainly used for photoelectricity industry and electronic, such as optics resin piece, glasses, precise revertex products ultrasonic cleaning water.
- Further to the east and the west the observers are a few thousand miles more distant, putting them beyond the vertex of the umbral cone, so that they witness only an annular eclipse.
- Black and punctured, with thin long griseous pubescence; the vertex, disk of the thorax, and the abdomen shining; the mandibles and clypeus yellow, the latter with a black bell-shaped spot in the middle; wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures ferruginous; the tibiæ with a yellow line outside. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
- Two large canals extend along the other two sides of the city up to the vertex, where they join and meet a river called the Rotte, which name, prefixed to the word dam, meaning dyke, gives Rotterdam. Holland, v. 1 (of 2)
- In the first 57 propositions in On the Section of a Cone Serenus examined triangular sections of right and scalene cones made by planes passing through the vertex.
- Epicranium: the upper part of the head from the front to the neck: often used to include front, vertex and genae: = calva. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
- Black; the head and thorax strongly punctured; the mandibles, clypeus, a line above extending to the anterior ocellus, the emargination of the eyes, a spot at their vertex and a line at their outer orbits, yellow; the antennæ reddish-yellow, with the scape pale yellow in front and a narrow fuscous line above; the yellow marking more or less stained orange. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology