VERTEX
\vˈɜːtɛks], \vˈɜːtɛks], \v_ˈɜː_t_ɛ_k_s]\
Definitions of VERTEX
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A turning point; the principal or highest point; top; summit; crown; apex.
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The top, or crown, of the head.
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The zenith, or the point of the heavens directly overhead.
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The point in any figure opposite to, and farthest from, the base; the terminating point of some particular line or lines in a figure or a curve; the top, or the point opposite the base.
By Oddity Software
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A turning point; the principal or highest point; top; summit; crown; apex.
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The top, or crown, of the head.
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The zenith, or the point of the heavens directly overhead.
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The point in any figure opposite to, and farthest from, the base; the terminating point of some particular line or lines in a figure or a curve; the top, or the point opposite the base.
By Noah Webster.
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1. The crown of the head; the topmost point of the vault of the skull, a landmark in craniometry. 2. In obstetrics the portion of the fetal head bounded by the planes of the trachelobregmatic and biparietal diameters, with the lesser fontanelle at the apex.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The crown or top of the head; the top of a hill or other thing; the point of a cone, pyramid, angle, or figure; the zenith or point of the heavens perpendicularly over the head. Vertex of a curve, the extremity of the axis or diameter, or the point where the diameter meets the curve.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The crown of the head; a somewhat indefinite area of the head that is highest when the subject is in the erect posture. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Latin] Principal or highest point; summit; crown;—the summit or top of' a hill;—the crown or top of the head.—in optics, tho pole of a glass ;—in astronomy, the zenith; the point in the heavens which is directly overhead or perpendicular to the spectator;—in mathematics, the point in any figure opposite to or furthest from the base,»the apex of a cone, pyramid, triangle, or other figure.
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