EGAVE

vertex

About 2.66 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The highest point, top or apex of something.
    The mountain’s vertex was covered in snow.
  2. noun The highest surface on the skull; the crown of the head.
  3. noun An angular point of a polygon, polyhedron or higher order polytope. The common point of the two rays that form an angle. The point at which an axis meets a curve or surface.
  4. noun The common point of the two rays that form an angle.
  5. noun The point at which an axis meets a curve or surface.
  6. noun A point on the curve with a local minimum or maximum of curvature.
  7. noun One of the elements of a graph joined or not by edges to other vertices.
  8. noun A point in 3D space, usually given in terms of its Cartesian coordinates.

Similar words

peak acme apex pinnacle corner top tip summit culmination cusp

Often followed by

of is and in to v at with a

Word family

vertexes vertices

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