- plural of apex.
apices
Americannoun
noun
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It also exhibits a remarkable asymmetric condition of the neural spines where they alternate from having transversely compressed apices to apices that are expanded to the right.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 10, 2013
The carbon atoms he figures at the apices of a hexagon, the benzene "ring."
From Time Magazine Archive
On removing the plaster, it will be found that the drop has been broken up into thousands of minute needle-shaped particles arranged in cones, the apices being in the direction of the tail.
From British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. by L. Arnoux
Crests were originally worn by military commanders upon the apices of their helmets as the proud distinction of their rank; and, by adding to their apparent stature, served to give them a formidable aspect.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
The Megaphone of Edison appeared, consisting of two large funnels having elastic conducting tubes from their apices to the aural orifice.
From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle
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