LateMiddle English Latin vertex ( “ whirl, eddy; top, crown, peak, summit ” ) .Doublet ofvortex
vertex (plural vertices or vertexes
Thehighest point ,top orapex of something.Synonyms: acme apex peak top Antonym: fundus ( anatomy ) highest surface on theskull ; thecrown of thehead . ( geometry ) angular point of apolygon ,polyhedron or higher orderpolytope .The commonpoint of the tworays that form anangle . Thepoint at which anaxis meets acurve orsurface . ( mathematics ) point on thecurve with a localminimum ormaximum ofcurvature .( graph theory ) elements of agraph joined or not byedges to othervertices .Synonym: node Coordinate term: plot ( computer graphics ) point in3D space, usually given in terms of itsCartesian coordinates .( optics ) point where thesurface of alens crosses theoptical axis .( particle physics ) interaction point .( astrology ) point where theprime vertical meets theecliptic in the westernhemisphere of anatal chart .( typography ) point opposite acrotch , as in the letters "V " and "W " but not "Y ".Coordinate term: apex highest point
Aragonese:vértiz m Bulgarian:връх (bg) m ( vrǎh ) Catalan:vèrtex (ca) m Czech:vrchol (cs) m Danish:toppunkt n Dutch:toppunt (nl) Finnish:huippu (fi) French:sommet (fr) m Georgian:ზენიტი ( zeniṭi ) German:Spitze (de) f Gipfel (de) m Scheitelpunkt (de) m Gipfelpunkt (de) m Hebrew:פסגה (he) f ( pisga ) Hungarian:csúcs (hu) ,csúcspont (hu) ,tetőpont (hu) Ingrian:kukkula Italian:vertice (it) m Japanese:頂 (ja) ( いただき, itadaki ) ,頂点 (ja) ( ちょうてん, chōten ) Korean:정점(頂點) (ko) ( jeongjeom ) Lithuanian:viršūnė f Macedonian:врв (mk) m ( vrv ) Maori:akitu Norwegian:Bokmål:toppunkt n Plautdietsch:Spetz f Polish:wierzchołek (pl) m Portuguese:cume (pt) m vértice (pt) m topo (pt) m Russian:верши́на (ru) f ( veršína ) ,верху́шка (ru) f ( verxúška ) Serbo-Croatian:vrh (sh) m Slovak:vrchol m Spanish:cumbre (es) f vértice (es) m
corner of a polygon or polyhedron
point where the surface of an optical element crosses the optical axis
physics: interaction point
Finnish:vuorovaikutuspiste Italian:please add this translation if you can Spanish:please add this translation if you can
Translations to be checked: "point of intersection of an axis and a curve"
Borrowed fromLatin vertex
vertex m plural vertex
( anatomy ) vertex Fromvertō ( “ to turn around, turn about ” ) .
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vertex m genitive verticis third declension
whirl ,whirlpool ,eddy ,vortex eddy ofwind orflame ,whirlwind ,coil of flame( literally , anatomy ) top ,crown of thehead ( poetic ) head vacuus vertex an empty head pole of theheavens (north orsouth )highest point ,top ,peak ,summit (of amountain ,house ,tree , etc.)Synonyms: cacūmen apex culmen fastīgium summitās Antonym: fundus a vertice from above/at the top in verticem upright/vertically ( figurative , poetic ) highest ,uttermost ,greatest Third-declension noun.
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“vertex Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879 )A Latin Dictionary “vertex Charlton T. Lewis (1891 )An Elementary Latin Dictionary , New York: Harper & Brothers "vertex ", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis vertex inGaffiot, Félix (1934 )Dictionnaire illustré latin-français , Hachette. Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894 )Latin Phrase-Book [1] Macmillan and Co. the pole:vertex caeli, axis caeli, cardo caeli Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002 ) “vĕrtex”, inFranzösisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch 14: U–Z ,page320 Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911 ) “vĕrtex”, inRomanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German),page706 Borrowed fromFrench vertex Latin vertex
vertex n uncountable
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