Vertex

Word VERTEX
Character 6
Hyphenation ver tex
Pronunciations /vɜːteks/

Definitions and meanings of "Vertex"

What do we mean by vertex?

The highest point; the apex or summit. noun

The highest point of the skull. noun

The top of the head. noun

In astrology, the highest point reached in the apparent motion of a celestial body. noun

The point at which the sides of an angle intersect. noun

The point on a triangle or pyramid opposite to and farthest away from its base. noun

A point on a polyhedron common to three or more sides. noun

A point of maximal curvature on a parabola or hyperbola. noun

In geometry, the point at which concurrent straights meet. noun

The highest or principal point; apex; top; crown; summit. noun

In mathematics, a point of a figure most distant from the center; any convex angle of a polygon. noun

A turning point; the principal or highest point; top; summit; crown; apex. noun

The top, or crown, of the head. noun

The zenith, or the point of the heavens directly overhead. noun

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. noun

The point in which the axis of the curve intersects it. noun

The point in which the sides of the angle meet. noun

The point in which the axis pierces the surface. noun

The highest point of something.

The highest surface on the skull.

The common point of the two rays of the angle, or its equivalent structure in polyhedra (meeting of edges) and higher order polytopes.

A point on the curve with a local minimum or maximum of curvature.

One of the elements of a graph joined or not by edges to other vertices.

A point in 3D space, usually given in terms of its Cartesian coordinates.

The point where the surface of a lens crosses the optical axis.

An interaction point.

The point where the prime vertical meets the ecliptic in the western hemisphere of a natal chart.

A sharp downward point opposite a crotch, as in the letters "V" and "W" but not "Y".

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The word "vertex" in example sentences

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Thus the interior angle at each vertex is either 90° or 270°. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"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." ❋ Lewis Carroll (1865)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (1933)

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. ❋ Unknown (1876)

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. ❋ Unknown (1862)

Another is the ability to separate two components called vertex shaders and fragment shaders that previously had to be linked together. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For this parabola, a = -10 so it opens down and the vertex is the maximum point. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The vertex is the minimum point on a parabola opening up and the maximum point on a parabola opening down. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Since the GPU can specialize in very specific operations (namely vertex transformations and pixel operations), it is much faster than the CPU for those specific operations. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Microsoft claim shakes graphics world - Microsoft's intellectual property (IP) claims first emerged back in March, when the company said that it had "possible claims" on a technology called vertex programming, which gives developers more control over 3D effects such as lighting. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I don't think it would be possible to do that in an as-you-go-along dynamic way, since each time you give it a point, it can't know where to locate the associated vertex at the offset location from there, without knowing ahead of time where the * next* point is going to be -- that is what will determine the direction and amount of bend [if any] at that vertex, which is necessary to knowing the position of the bend point in the offset location. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The report, published in JAMA (the Journal of the American Medical Association), concluded that men with typical male pattern baldness-that is, spreading outward from the crown or "vertex" of the head-are anywhere from 30 to 300 percent more likely to suffer a heart attack than men with little or no hair loss at all. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Coulomb's law is governed by the magnitude of the vertex which is the electric charge e in QED and for the diagram above it is proportional to the square of e and is the Fine Structure Constant = 1/137. ❋ Unknown (2001)

To make a solid object from polygons you must always have a point where three sides meet: a corner, or what’s called a vertex. ❋ Alex Bellos (2010)

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