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vertices

/ˈvɝtɪsiːs/ · noun

Meaning

  1. The highest point of something.
  2. The highest surface on the skull.
  3. The common point of the two rays of the angle, or its equivalent structure in polyhedra (meeting of edges) and higher order polytopes.
  4. A point on the curve with a local minimum or maximum of curvature.
  5. One of the elements of a graph joined or not by edges to other vertices.
  6. A point in 3D space, usually given in terms of its Cartesian coordinates.

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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