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Meanings of vertices in English

Russian
вершина
Portuguese
vértice
Spanish
vértice
Catalan
vèrtex

Fundamental unit of which graphs (in graph theory) are formed.

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вершина
Usage of vertices in English
1
All vertices may yield aptive traits of great utility to the organism.
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
2
Hypergraphs are a generalization of graphs where edges can connect several vertices.
Pubmed
3
The twelve vertices were joined by a network of thirty straight edges.
Anathem
4
The cubic framework is generated by sharing the vertices of the octahedra.
Pubmed
5
One of the thing's vertices had a spike that quickly retracted.
Edge of Infinity
6
Those twenty triangular facets came together at twelve vertices; each vertex joined five triangles.
Anathem
7
During the final approach, the other three vertices of the Node were below them.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
8
The stations are the vertices and the train lines joining them are the edges.
The Irish Times
9
Two of the jets are required to have secondary vertices consistent with B-hadron decays.
Pubmed
10
Accumulation of the local strain thus imposed at multiple vertices can then lead to disassembly.
Pubmed
11
It has 20 vertices, each joining three edges.
The Guardian
12
There is a report a of two girls joined at their vertices, who survived their birth.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
13
There were four large spheres at the vertices, connected to each other by six linear transportation corridors.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
14
Harv formed right angles with his thumbs and index fingers and defined the vertices of a rectangle, book-size.
The Diamond Age
15
A polyhedron consists of a number of flat faces that join along edges and at vertices (points).
The Guardian
16
The icosahedron has 12 vertices, which each link 5 edges.
The Guardian
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Translations for vertices
Portuguese
vérticenó
Vertices through the time