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vertex

[vur-teks] / ˈvɜr tɛks /


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This was practically confirmed using a vertex cover problem with 4096 vertices.

From Science Daily

While place cells fire whenever an animal is in a specific location, grid cells fire only when the animal is at one of the vertices of a triangular lattice.

From Science Daily

Deneb is apparently the faintest of the stellar triangle vertices, but don’t be fooled.

From Scientific American

Two classes of shapes work, they proved: “boring parallelograms” and “surprising cyclic quadrilaterals,” cyclic meaning that all vertexes of a quadrilateral lie on a circle.

From New York Times

In the Blue Brain graph, for example, three neurons with all three synapses between them transmitting signals formed the vertices of a hollow triangle.

From Scientific American