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Definition of Apexes

1. apex [n] - See also: apex

Lexicographical Neighbors of Apexes

Literary usage of Apexes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Modern perspective: a treatise upon the principles and practice of plane and by William Robert Ware (1882)
"... C, will contain the other false apexes, and as the true apexes are either on a level with B or are directly above or below it, so the false apexes will ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"... lodes and deposits, the tops с г apexes of which lie on the inside of its surveys as patented, throughout their entire depth and wherever they may go, ..."

3. An Elementary Treatise on Pure Geometry with Numerous Examples by John Wellesley Russell (1905)
"The poles of a common chord of two conics are divided harmonically \>y the two common apexes (see XIX. 8) which lic on the line joining the poles. ..."

4. Framed Structures and Girders Theory and Practice. Volume I. Stresses, Part I by Edgar Marburg (1911)
"Displacements of the apexes of a Truss (Graphic Method). It is sometimes desirable to ascertain the displacement of every apex of a truss, or the component ..."

5. Framed Structures and Girders Theory and Practice. Volume I. Stresses, Part I by Edgar Marburg (1911)
"Displacements of the apexes of a Truss (Graphic Method). It is sometimes desirable to ascertain the displacement of every apex of a truss, or the component ..."

6. Miners' Manual, United States, Alaska, the Klondike: Containing Annotated by Horace Fletcher Clark, Charles C. Heltman, Charles F. Consaul (1898)
"The right to work all lodes or veins the tops or apexes of which lie within such surface ground, throughout their entire depth, although they may so far ..."

7. An Elementary Treatise on Pure Geometry: With Numerous Examples by John Wellesley Russell (1893)
"On each side (UW} of the common self-conjugate triangle of two conics lic two common apexes (BB') and the two poles (PP' and QCf) of two common chords (be ..."

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