Definitions for apexes

apexes a·pex

Spelling: [ey-peks]
IPA: /ˈeɪ pɛks/

Apexes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 64 anagrams from letters in apexes (aeepsx).

Definitions for apexes

noun

  1. the tip, point, or vertex; summit.
  2. climax; peak; acme:
  3. Astronomy. solar apex.

Origin of apexes

Borrowed into English from Latin around 1595-1605

Examples for apexes

The centre gable overlaps the portal beneath, and the apexes of the two side gables are beyond the middle of the two side portals.

The leading design is naturally the Herati, and again one sees the palm leaf with its apexes all pointing in the same direction.

It has two cone-shaped superimposed glass globes connected at their apexes through a small opening.

Their apexes will probably come at about K and M in Fig. 208.

The Household Cavalry were given helmets with weeping plumes fixed to the apexes.

It was the duplicating lines of the departing sun, upon the castellated rocks, as they pierced between the apexes and the basin.

Word Value for apexes
Scrable

15

Words with friends

16

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