Highest point on a mountain

Usage examples of apex.

In its struggles to see in through the open door, the crowd formed itself into a straggling wedge, with the more adventurous apex nearest the inn.

Behind the apex, which has a number of initial cells, a series of amphigastria or ventral scales is formed.

The apex is sometimes bifid or even trifid, owing to a slight separation between the terminal pointed cells.

A number of Plebos were clustered around its base and Favril and Bolar were among them, but it was up the lacy spire that my eyes lifted--to where its apex, level with the rim of the bowl, was surmounted by a wide platform that held a knot of Plebos and Daster and several machines whose nature I could not make out.

She poured black-powder into six funnels made of paper, each of which had a fuse of twine sticking out of its apex, and stuck them in cracks just below the Bookmark layer.

Whilst describing such figures, the apex often travels in a zigzag line, or makes small subordinate loops or triangles.

The objects, which by now Ishmael had assumed were pilots ejecting from a fighter, started to fall at their apex.

The cars and buses trapped on the span were still immobile, Electro still paced the East Tower in a ball of light and the young blonde woman in the miniskirt still plummeted from the West Tower, again and again, each time almost hitting the water before flickering, disappearing, and reappearing at the apex of her plunge.

Their glands are much elongated, and lie embedded on the upper surface of the pedicel, instead of standing at the apex.

Ireland, are much elongated, and gradually widen from the footstalk to the bluntly pointed apex.

The crystal hung from a silver chain fastened to a ring screwed into its apex.

There was a window at each side, and the roof sloped up steeply above the actual shop, and under the apex, set partly in plaster, was a wheel, the hub cracked, the felloes springing out here and there from the rim.

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Persimmon Sea flew the Suaniset utility vehicle, an ungainly Apex A-15, lacking all style or flair and Schaine suspected that Gerd Jemasze intended nothing less than a demonstration of contempt for the fads of Olanje.

But this action must be aided by the circumnutating movement, for fine sand, kept moist, was pressed close round the apex of a gynophore which had reached the ground, and after a few hours it was surrounded by a narrow open crack.