Definitions for vertices

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vertices ver·ti·ces

Spelling: [vur-tuh-seez]

IPA: /ˈvɜr təˌsiz/

Vertices is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 294 anagrams from letters in vertices (ceeirstv).

Definitions for vertices

noun

1. a plural of vertex.
2. the highest point of something; apex; summit; top:
3. Anatomy, Zoology. the crown or top of the head.
4. Craniometry. the highest point on the midsagittal plane of the skull or head viewed from the left side when the skull or head is in the Frankfurt horizontal.
5. Astronomy. a point in the celestial sphere toward which or from which the common motion of a group of stars is directed.
6. Geometry. the point farthest from the base: a point in a geometrical solid common to three or more sides. the intersection of two sides of a plane figure.

Origin of vertices

1560-70; Latin: a whirl, top (of the head), equivalent to vert(ere) to turn + -ex (stem -ic-) noun suffix

Examples for vertices

At the vertices of a regular tetrahedron may be found such points.

If a parabola roll on another parabola, their vertices coinciding, the focus of the first traces out the directrix of the second.

Mechanical means of describing hyperbolas, their foci and vertices being given.

At the vertices of this polygon the Pythagoreans placed the Greek letters signifying "health."

A cube may be inscribed in an octahedron, its vertices being at the centers of the faces of the octahedron.

The practical problem may be given of locating the vertices of the triangle and of finding the length of each stay.

Similarly the elevation of the other sides and vertices are found.

The ends of these diameters are the vertices of the required square.

But the circle embraces them altogether as the geometrical locus263 of the vertices of triangles satisfying the given conditions.

FHH′F′; and the relation of the principal points to the vertices is also the same as in the mensicus.