'Vertices' definitions:
Definition of 'Vertices'
From: GCIDE
- Vertex \Ver"tex\, n.; pl. E. Vertexes, L. Vertices. [L. vertex, -icis, a whirl, top of the head, top, summit, from vertere to turn. See Verse, and cf. Vortex.] A turning point; the principal or highest point; top; summit; crown; apex. Specifically: [1913 Webster] (a) (Anat.) The top, or crown, of the head. [1913 Webster] (b) (Astron.) The zenith, or the point of the heavens directly overhead. [1913 Webster] (c) (Math.) 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. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The principal vertex of a conic section is, in the parabola, the vertex of the axis of the curve: in the ellipse, either extremity of either axis, but usually the left-hand vertex of the transverse axis; in the hyperbola, either vertex, but usually the right-hand vertex of the transverse axis. [1913 Webster]
- Vertex of a curve (Math.), the point in which the axis of the curve intersects it.
- Vertex of an angle (Math.), the point in which the sides of the angle meet.
- Vertex of a solid, or Vertex of a surface of revolution (Math.), the point in which the axis pierces the surface. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'Vertices'
- Vertical,
- Verticality,
- Vertically,
- Verticalness,
- Verticity,
- Prime vertical,
- Seismic vertical,
- Vertical angle,
- Vertical anthers,
- Vertical circle,
- Vertical drill,
- Vertical fire,
- Vertical leaves,
- Vertical limb,
- Vertical line,
- Vertical plane,
- Vertical sash,
- vertical bank,
- vertical combination,
- vertical fault,
- vertical file,
- vertical fin,
- vertical flute,
- vertical integration,
- vertical section,
- vertical stabiliser,
- vertical stabilizer,
- vertical surface,
- vertical tail,
- vertical union,
- Deviation of the line of the vertical,
- Prime vertical dial,
- Vertical steam engine,
- Prime-vertical dial,
- Prime-vertical transit instrument