VERTEX (vertices)

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Irregular inflected form: vertices   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does vertex mean? 

• VERTEX (noun)
  The noun VERTEX has 2 senses:

1. the point of intersection of lines or the point opposite the base of a figure

2. the highest point (of something)

  Familiarity information: VERTEX used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VERTEX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The point of intersection of lines or the point opposite the base of a figure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("vertex" is a kind of...):

intersection; intersection point; point of intersection (a point where lines intersect)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The highest point (of something)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

acme; apex; peak; vertex

Context example:

at the peak of the pyramid

Hypernyms ("vertex" is a kind of...):

extreme; extreme point; extremum (the point located farthest from the middle of something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vertex"):

crown (the part of a hat (the vertex) that covers the crown of the head)

roof peak (the highest point of a roof)

 Context examples 

The blood vessels at the vertex and on either side of the head that drain deoxygenated blood into the pterygoid venous plexus.

(Deep Temporal Vein, NCI Thesaurus)

A graph whose edges are ordered pairs of vertices or nodes and which contains no path that starts and ends at the same vertex.

(Directed Acyclic Graph, NCI Thesaurus)

Our courses were converging like the sides of an angle, the vertex of which was at the edge of the fog-bank.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A solid dosage form bounded by a circular base and the surface formed by line segments joining every point of the boundary of the base to a common vertex.

(Cone Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A matrix with rows and columns labeled by graph vertices, with a 1 or 0 in position (vi,vj) according to whether vi and vj are adjacent or not.

(Adjacency Matrix, NCI Thesaurus)

A solid bounded by a circular base converging upon a single vertex and intended for administration to the teeth and gingiva in the oral cavity.

(Dental Cone Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

A solid with a shape bounded by a circular base converging upon a single vertex.

(Cone Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)