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vertices

American  
[vur-tuh-seez] / ˈvɜr təˌsiz /

noun

  1. a plural of vertex.


vertices British  
/ ˈvɜːtɪˌsiːz /

noun

  1. (in technical and scientific senses only) a plural of vertex

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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

From Science Daily Mar. 25, 2024

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 Oct. 30, 2023

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

From Scientific American Jul. 14, 2023

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 Sep. 26, 2022

We understand this cube to cast a shadow, which we usually draw as two squares with their vertices connected.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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