How to Use vertex in a Sentence

vertex

noun

• 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
• For instance, a graph in which every vertex is connected to every other vertex is called a complete graph, and the chromatic number of a complete graph with n vertices is n.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 Mar. 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
• To find a periodic trajectory in an acute triangle, draw a perpendicular line from each vertex to the opposite side, as seen to the left, below.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
• For example, Pythagorean triples (such as 3, 4 and 5), represent right triangles whose three vertices are all integer distances apart.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024