Apex

Apex is the Latin word (plural apices) for the top, tip, peak or highest point of anything; it may refer to one of the following.

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• is the pointed end of an object: the tip of a cone, a pyramid, or another conic solid, or the highest point of a hill, etc.
• Apex is the tip of the spire of the shell of a gastropod.
• Apex was a pointed piece of olive-wood, the base of which was surrounded with a lock of wool, worn by Roman priests.
• Apex, North Carolina is a town in the United States.
• In travel industry, APEX stands for: Advance Purchase Excursion Fare. In reality it means that ticket has to be bought 30, 28, 21, 10, 07, 05 or 03 days before departure (in some cases 24 or 48 hours after reservation). Specific conditions are set by the individual travel agent.
• Apex Digital is a California-based electronics manufacturer.
• Apex is also a racing title for Microsoft's Xbox video game console, released by Atari.
• APEX is also the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment, a radioastronomical project in the high Andes in the north of Chile. See http://www.apex-telescope.org
• APEX - Arrayed Primer EXtension in biotechnology: a resequencing method for rapid identification of mutations that combines the efficiency of an microarray-based assay with the Sanger sequencing.
• APEX is a convenient unit for expressing exposure (Ev) in the field of photography.
• Apex was a supervillain of the TV show Portal.
• Apex The point the car should touch on the inside of a turn when following a proper line. The Geometric Apex is a point on the inside of the track at a point that bisects the angle of the entering straight and the exit straight. The geometric center of the turn. A point before the Geometric Apex is called Early Apex, and after the Geometrical Apex, Late Apex.
• Apex is the NATO reporting name of the Vympel R-23 air-to-air missile.
• Apex - U.K. based Thrash Metal band looking for a bassist.
• A diminutive "apiculus" is used in botany.