How to Use vertex in a Sentence

vertex

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  • Each vertex is a point mass of 1 unit, and the total mass is 3 units.
    — Quanta Magazine, 5 Dec. 2019
  • In graph theory, however, the points are called vertices and the lines are called edges.
    — Arthur Benjamin, Scientific American, 2 Aug. 2017
  • The Chrysler Building’s steel vertex was delivered in five pieces.
    — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2019
  • Since the cone has its vertex at the origin, the radius of each horizontal slice will be the x value of that function.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 2 Jan. 2013
  • For each bit of information, draw a vertex (or node), called a digit node.
    — Quanta Magazine, 24 Nov. 2021
  • The first was the average number of vertices, or corners, per polygon.
    — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2023
  • Like a bent arm, the Hoyle state takes the shape of an obtuse triangle with an alpha particle at each vertex.
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 Dec. 2012
  • Like a spatial metric, these cells fired when an animal passed over the vertices of the triangles.
    — Matthew Schafer, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2020
  • If there are two vertices, they must be connected, making a two-vertex star.
    — Patrick Honner, Quanta Magazine, 21 July 2023
  • Deneb is apparently the faintest of the stellar triangle vertices, but don’t be fooled.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 14 July 2023
  • The algorithm examines each body as a shape fashioned from vertices—the points that plot out a 3D model’s mesh or skeleton rig, for instance.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Sep. 2023
  • In these structures, known as linear hypergraphs, no two edges are allowed to overlap at more than one vertex.
    — Quanta Magazine, 5 Apr. 2021
  • And a narrowing of the cerebrospinal fluid spaces at the vertex, the top of the skull, was apparent in 12 long-term astronauts but only one of the short-term astronauts.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Nov. 2017
  • In the module at the top of the entorhinal cortex, a rat that activated a grid cell at one vertex of a hexagon would have to travel 30 to 35 centimeters to an adjoining vertex.
    — May-Britt Moser, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2016
  • Initially, every vertex has the same probability of being open to the flow of water.
    — Allison Whitten, Wired, 11 July 2021
  • The affected area is roughly the shape of a triangle, with Hawaii, Alaska and Southern California as its vertices.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2019
  • The algorithm’s goal, then, is to determine the most energy-efficient way that set of vertices can rotate or translate.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The second was the average number of polygons surrounding each vertex.
    — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2023
  • Meanwhile, each point represents a vertex at which four creases meet, the minimum needed for folding.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Graphs — collections of vertices (dots) linked by edges (lines) — provide an accessible, visual way to see what isomorphism can look like.
    — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 23 June 2023
  • Each threadgroup can access groupshared memory but can output vertices and primitives that don't need to correlate with a specific thread in the group.
    — Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 19 Mar. 2020
  • But last week one of my students located the vertex of a parabola in a particularly elegant way.
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Standard graphs can only express relationships between pairs of things, like two friends in a social network (where each person is represented by a vertex).
    — Quanta Magazine, 5 Apr. 2021
  • For these quantum experiments, every path a photon takes is represented by a vertex.
    — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 2 July 2021
  • Finally, notice that the Tohoku population represents a vertex of a triangle where the two other positions are held by the Okinawans and Chinese.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2011
  • Or, perhaps, is his sexiness confined to a certain demographic, the vertex of his popularity a past moment rather than an ongoing trend?
    — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 12 June 2019
  • Getting all that data to fit on the PlayStation's limited hardware, though, involved writing a custom compression algorithm that threw out unnecessary data for vertices that didn't move as much.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Existing small drones are usually polycopters—helicopters that have a set of rotors (generally four or six) arranged at the vertices of a regular polygon, rather than a single one above their centre of gravity.
    — The Economist, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Mathematical graphs are structures that represent the dynamic relations among sets of items: Individual items sit at the vertices of the structure; the lines, or edges, between every pair of items describe their connection.
    — John Rennie, WIRED, 1 July 2018
  • Brain differences between the 23 participants were quantified at each surface vertex.
    — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2013

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