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noun

Apex n. (pl. E. apexes; L. apices)

The tip, top, point, or angular summit of anything; as, the apex of a mountain, spire, or cone; the apex, or tip, of a leaf.

(Mining) The end or edge of a vein nearest the surface. (U.S.)

Apex of the earth's motion (Astron.), that point of the heavens toward which the earth is moving in its orbit.

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Etymology of 'Apex'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Apex" Quotes from Famous Books

... Throughout that book, with its brilliant enamel-like surfaces, there is a tendency to make sport of our national weakness for resounding names. Undine Spragg—hideous collocation—is not the only offence. There is Indiana Frusk of Apex City, and Millard Binch, a combination in which the Dickens of American Notes would have found amusement. Hotels with titles like The Stentorian are not exaggerated. Miss Spragg's ancestor had invented "a hair waver"; ...

— Ivory Apes and Peacocks • James Huneker

... otherwise the most pretentious of the group. It is commonly called the "Big House," and near it is the tall flagstaff. Between the rows of buildings and the shore is a broad board walk, which leads down near the apex of the triangle to a small wharf of logs. It was at this wharf that our ...

— The Lure of the Labrador Wild • Dillon Wallace

... crest of the next hill she looked up, saw herself the apex of a rapidly shortening triangle, and grasped instantly the situation; she had peeped admiringly and fearsomely between the stout rails of the little, round corral too often not to know Denver when she saw him, and in a panic turned from ...

— Chip, of the Flying U • B. M. Bower

... about six inches in length, of a glaucous hue, with a fine bright purple at its base, running out to a long point, opening above from the base to within about an inch of the apex, where the edges roll over to one side, forming an angle of about forty-five degrees, and ...

— The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 4 - Or, Flower-Garden Displayed • William Curtis

... psychological, take place, and these changes demand new guidance. But the routineers are always unprepared. It has become one of the grim trade jokes of innovators that the one thing you can count upon is that the rulers will come to think that they are the apex of human development. For a queer effect of responsibility on men is that it makes them try to be as much like machines as possible. Tammany itself becomes rigid when it is too successful, and only defeat seems to give it new life. Success ...

— A Preface to Politics • Walter Lippmann

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