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the corner where lines admit they're going somewhere together.
means The point where two or more lines, edges, or surfaces meet — the highest point or the sharp corner of a shape, angle, or curve.
from From Latin vertex, meaning 'whirl, top, highest point' — literally the crown of the head where the hair spirals into a whorl. It grew from the verb vertere, 'to turn' (the same root that gives us 'convert,' 'reverse,' and 'vortex,' its swirling sibling). The Romans saw the top of anything as the place where it turned — the pole of the sky, the summit of a mountain, the spinning point of a crown. Geometry later borrowed it for the precise point where lines turn to meet.
- latin root
- means whirlpool or the crown of your head
- graph theory
- the dots that edges desperately connect
- plural twist
- vertices or vertexes, both correct, both smug
- physics steal
- particle collision points borrowed the name entirely
- parabola peak
- the single point where direction surrenders
graph theory vertex — fundamental concept in mathematics where nodes represent connection points with edges between them
vertex shader — graphics programming component that processes each vertex of 3d geometry in rendering pipelines
vertex angle — the angle at the apex of a triangle or cone where two sides meet