1. n. The "highest" or the greatest point of something.
the apex of the building
2. n. (figuratively) The moment of greatest success, expansion, etc.
the apex of civilization
3. n. (geometry) The topmost vertex of a cone or pyramid (in their conventional orientation).
4. n. (chiefly anatomy) The "pointed" fine end of something.
5. n. The lowest part of the human heart.
6. n. The deepest part of a tooth's root.
7. n. (botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ opposed to the end where it is attached to its support; the tip.
8. n. (astronomy) The point on the celestial sphere toward which the sun appears to move relative to nearby stars.
9. n. (physics) The lowest point on a pendant drop of a liquid.
10. n. (mining, US) The end or edge of a vein nearest the surface.
11. n. (typography) A diacritic in Classical Latin that resembles and gave rise to the acute.
12. n. (typography) A diacritic in Middle Vietnamese that indicates (IPAchar, /ŋ͡m/).
cap
1. n. Képi.
2. n. (Habillement) Toque, bonnet.
3. n. Casquette.
4. n. Couvercle.
5. n. Capsule, bouchon (de bouteille).
6. v. Mettre un képi, une casquette, ou un couvercle sur.
7. v. Limiter en haut.
8. n. Majuscule.
All in caps.
Tout en majuscule.
9. n. (Électricité) Capacité électrique.
Parasitic caps.
Capacités parasites.
cap
1. n. A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.
The children were all wearing caps to protect them from the sun.
2. n. A special hat to indicate rank, occupation etc.
3. n. An academic mortarboard
4. n. A protective cover or seal
He took the cap off the bottle and splashed himself with some cologne.
5. n. A crown for covering a tooth
He had golden caps on his teeth.
6. n. The summit of a mountain etc.
There was snow on the cap of the mountain.
7. n. An artificial upper limit or ceiling
We should put a cap on the salaries, to keep them under control.
8. n. The top part of a mushroom
9. n. A small amount of gunpowder in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun
Billy spent all morning firing caps with his friends, re-enacting storming the beach at Normandy.
10. n. A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives
He wired the cap to the bundle of dynamite, then detonated it remotely.
11. n. (slang) A bullet used to shoot someone.
12. n. (soccer) An international appearance
Rio Ferdinand won his 50th cap for England in a game against Sweden.
13. n. (obsolete) The top, or uppermost part; the chief.
14. n. (obsolete) A respectful uncovering of the head.
15. n. (zoology) The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
16. n. (architecture) The uppermost of any assemblage of parts.
the cap of column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate
17. n. Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
18. n. (nautical) A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope.
19. n. (geometry) A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
20. n. A large size of writing paper.
flat cap; foolscap; legal cap
21. v. To cover or seal with a cap
22. v. To award a cap as a mark of distinction etc.
23. v. To lie over or on top of something
24. v. To surpass or outdo
25. v. To set an upper limit on something
cap wages.
26. v. To make something even more wonderful at the end.
That really capped my day.
27. v. (transitive, cricket) To select a player to play for a specified side
28. v. (transitive, slang) To shoot (someone) with a firearm.
If he don't get outta my hood, I'm gonna cap his ass.
29. v. (transitive, sports) to select to play for the national team.
Peter Shilton is the most capped English footballer.
30. v. (transitive, obsolete) To uncover the head respectfully.
31. v. To deprive of a cap.
32. n. (finance) Capitalization.
33. n. (informal) An uppercase letter.
34. v. (transitive, informal) To convert text to uppercase.
35. n. (electronics) capacitor
Parasitic caps.
36. n. (colloquial) A recording or screenshot.
Anyone have a cap of the games last night?
37. v. To take a screenshot or to record a copy of a video.
38. n. (obsolete) A wooden drinking-bowl with two handles.
1. n. A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
2. n. (heraldry) A representation of such a headdress, as in heraldry; it may even be that only the image exists, no physical crown, as in the case of the kingdom of Belgium; by analogy such crowns can be a
3. n. A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
4. n. (by extension) Any reward of victory or mark of honor.
the martyr's crown
5. n. Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
6. n. (metonym) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
7. n. (by extension, especially in legal) The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
Treasure recovered from shipwrecks automatically becomes property of the Crown.
8. n. The topmost part of the head.
9. n. The highest part of a hill.
10. n. Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress); (translation) various currencies known by similar names in their native languages, such as the koruna
11. n. (historical) A former pre-decimalization British coin worth five shillings.
12. n. (botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
13. n. (forestry) The top of a tree.
14. n. (anatomy) The part of a tooth above the gums.
15. n. (dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
16. n. (nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling
17. n. (nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet
18. n. (nautical) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
19. n. (nautical, in the plural) The bights formed by the turns of a cable.
20. n. (paper) In England, a standard size of printing paper measuring 20 x 15 inches.
21. n. (paper) In American, a standard size of writing paper measuring 19 x 15 inches.
22. n. (chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location
23. n. (medical) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina
24. n. (firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening
25. n. The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
26. n. The dome of a furnace.
27. n. (geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
28. n. (religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
29. n. A whole turkey with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
30. n. The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands
31. adj. Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.
crown prince
32. adj. Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.
a crown fire
33. v. To place a crown on the head of.
34. v. To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
35. v. To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
36. v. To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
37. v. To declare (someone) a winner.
38. v. (medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
The mother was in the second stage of labor and the fetus had just crowned, prompting a round of encouragement from the midwives.
39. v. To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.
40. v. To hit on the head.
41. v. (video games) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
42. v. (board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
“Crown me!” I said, as I moved my checker to the back row.
43. v. (firearms) To widen the opening of the barrel.
44. v. (military) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
45. v. (nautical) To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.
46. v. (archaic) past participle of crow
vertex
1. n. Le point le plus haut de quelque chose.
2. n. (Géométrie) sommet, le coin d'un polygone ou d'un polyèdre.
3. n. (Théorie des graphes) Sommet.
We consider two vertices in this graph G.
On considère deux sommets dans ce graphe G.
4. n. (Informatique) (Infographie) Un point dans l'espace.
5. n. (Anatomie) (Soutenu) Calotte, vertex, partie supérieure du crâne.
vertex
1. n. The highest point of something.
2. n. (anatomy) The highest surface on the skull.
3. n. (geometry) The common point of the two rays of the angle, or its equivalent structure in polyhedra (meeting of edges) and higher order polytopes.
4. n. (mathematics) A point on the curve with a local minimum or maximum of curvature.
5. n. (graph theory) One of the elements of a graph joined or not by edges to other vertices.
6. n. (computer graphics) A point in 3D space, usually given in terms of its Cartesian coordinates.
7. n. (optics) The point where the surface of a lens crosses the optical axis.
8. n. (nuclear, or particle physics) An interaction point.
9. n. (astrology) The point where the prime vertical meets the ecliptic in the western hemisphere of a natal chart.