vertex
IPA: vˈɝtɛks
noun
- The highest point, top or apex of something.
- (anatomy) The highest surface on the skull; the crown of the head.
- (geometry) 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.
- (mathematics) A point on the curve with a local minimum or maximum of curvature.
- (graph theory) One of the elements of a graph joined or not by edges to other vertices.
- (computer graphics) A point in 3D space, usually given in terms of its Cartesian coordinates.
- (optics) The point where the surface of a lens crosses the optical axis.
- (particle physics) An interaction point.
- (astrology) The point where the prime vertical meets the ecliptic in the western hemisphere of a natal chart.
- (typography) A sharp downward point opposite a crotch, as in the letters "V" and "W" but not "Y".
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Examples of "vertex" in Sentences
- Thus the interior angle at each vertex is either 90° or 270°.
- Another is the ability to separate two components called vertex shaders and fragment shaders that previously had to be linked together.
- "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."
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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