VERTEX
\vˈɜːtɛks], \vˈɜːtɛks], \v_ˈɜː_t_ɛ_k_s]\
Definitions of VERTEX
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged 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
- 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.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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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