Apex
['eɪpeks] or ['epɛks]
Definition
(noun.) the point on the celestial sphere toward which the sun and solar system appear to be moving relative to the fixed stars.
Typist: Marcus--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The tip, top, point, or angular summit of anything; as, the apex of a mountain, spire, or cone; the apex, or tip, of a leaf.
(n.) The end or edge of a vein nearest the surface.
Edited by Bradley
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Top, summit, acme, zenith, pinnacle, highest point, culminating point, utmost height.
Edited by Albert
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ACME]
Editor: Orville
Definition
n. the summit or point: the vertex of a triangle: the culminating point climax of anything:—pl. Apexes (ā′peks-ez) Apices (ap′i-sēz).
Inputed by Conrad
Examples
- It has become one of the grim trade jokes of innovators that the one thing you can count upon is that the rulers will come to think that they are the apex of human development. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- When full grown the Big Trees are proportionate and symmetrical in girth and height and the beauty of the tree is enhanced by flutings that traverse the bark from the base to the apex. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- If human greatness is a matter of scale and glitter, then no doubt Alexander the Great is at the apex of human greatness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Form the balance of the battleships into a great V with the apex pointing directly south-south-east. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The _Megaphone_ of Edison appeared, consisting of two large funnels having elastic conducting tubes from their apices to the aural orifice. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Typed by Benjamin