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What is the noun for vertex?

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vertex
  1. The highest point of something.
  2. (anatomy) The highest surface on the skull.
  3. (geometry) The common point of the two rays of the angle, or its equivalent structure in polyhedra (meeting of edges) and higher order polytopes.
  4. (mathematics) A point on the curve with a local minimum or maximum of curvature.
  5. (graph theory) One of the elements of a graph joined or not by edges to other vertices.
  6. (computer graphics) A point in 3D space, usually given in terms of its Cartesian coordinates.
  7. (optics) The point where the surface of a lens crosses the optical axis.
  8. (nuclear or particle physics) An interaction point.
  9. (astrology) The point where the prime vertical meets the ecliptic in the western hemisphere of a natal chart.
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  11. Examples:
    1. “The Sahasrara, or crown chakra, is related to the pituitary gland and externalizes at the vertex of the scalp.”
      “First construct an isosceles triangle whose base angles are double the vertex angle.”
      “Therefore, origami models have constant zero Gauss curvature at each interior vertex.”
vertexing
  1. (physics) The detection of vertices in the tracks of particles.
vertice
  1. (nonstandard) Alternative form of vertex
  2. Examples:
    1. “This window will allow you to define a polygon vertice by vertice, either by its coordinates or by its relative position to the previous vertice, and to insert, delete, or move any vertice.”
vertexes
  1. plural of vertex
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Similarly, the vertexes of an hypocycloid are the points on the curve that coincides with an inscribed circle.”
      “A dodecahedron or is a geometric form with 12 pentagonal surfaces, 20 vertexes and 30 ribs.”
      “The tensions of the vertexes of the base are compensated by the tension of the upper point.”
vertices
  1. plural of vertex
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  3. Examples:
    1. “His theses drawn from cultural and analytic vertices, provide anchors for the incomprehensible.”
      “But what vertices of anxiety lie behind the gentle opposition of town and country, youth and age when Janice arrives in Dulwich.”
      “Indeed, the sum is a polygon whose vertices are obtained as the sums of vertices of the addends.”
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