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Look up APEX or apex in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The apex is the highest point of something. The word may also refer to: Apex (comics), a teenaged...

IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In written Latin, the apex (plural "apices") is a mark with roughly the shape of an acute accent (´) or apostrophe...

In geometry, an apex (pl.: apices) is the vertex which is in some sense the "highest" of the figure to which it belongs. The term is typically used to...

The apex (plural: apices) was a cap worn by certain priests (the flamines and Salii) in ancient Rome. The essential part of the apex, to which alone the...

pyramids are mirror images across their common base plane. When each apex (pl. apices, the off-base vertices) of the bipyramid is on a line perpendicular...

shows distinct breves (ĕ), acutes (ó), and apices (u᷄). The entry for blu᷄́ shows that a vowel with an apex can take on an additional tone mark, in this...

can give the tooth an enlarged appearance, which mainly occurs at the apex or apices of the tooth. It is experienced as an uncomfortable sensation in the...

spelled fīliī today, using macrons rather than apices to indicate long vowels. On rare occasions, an apex could combine with long i to form ⟨Í⟩, e.g. ⟨dÍs·mánibus⟩...

triangles with apex angles 2kπ/n, for an integer k with 1 ≤ k ≤ n − 2 are erected on the sides of an arbitrary n-gon A0, whose apices are the vertices...

subtriangular and the apex neither upcurved nor upturned. The female genitalia has the following features: Anal papillae is rounded at apices. Signum is denticulate...

spots at apices of veins 4 and 5; lastly, a large black spot in the outer half of interspace 3. Hindwing: a black costal spot just before the apex, otherwise...

trapezohedron, which also has 24 congruent kite faces, but two order-12 apices (i.e. poles) and two rings of twelve order-3 vertices each. Still in crystallography...

has a pair of stridulatory bands. The hind legs have tibiae with truncate apices. All legs end in simple tarsal claws. Adults feed on stems of plants at...

block dots at the apices of the veins. Hind wing: generally uniform, unmarked, some specimens bear minute black dots at the apices of the veins. "On the...

develops from axillary bud apices several nodes below the stem apex. The male flower, or tassel, develops from the stem apex. Anthers on the tassel dehisce...

includes the cells at the apices of the histogens of both stele and cortex. Its presence can be deduced from the anatomy of the apex in Zea (Clowes, 1958)...

coalesce with the black on apex and termen. The hindwing is sometimes immaculate, sometimes with a series of terminal spots at the apices of the veins, sometimes...

Arms are developed to increase the plant's reproductive capacity, as more apices lead to more flowers and fruit. A saguaro can absorb and store considerable...

common being the apex used to mark long vowels, which had previously sometimes been written doubled. However, in place of taking an apex, the letter i was...

ventral lobe with rounded apex level with apices of dorsal lobes. Inferior appendage short, broad, obliquely truncate at apex, with strong dorsal concavity...