How to Use vertex in a Sentence

vertex

noun
  • Each vertex is a point mass of 1 unit, and the total mass is 3 units.
    — Quanta Magazine, 5 Dec. 2019
  • The answer, Schwartz found, is eight vertices.
    — Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Now look at the same two vertices, but for one of them, jump up to the vertex directly above it in the top graph.
    — Joseph Howlett, WIRED, 24 Nov. 2024
  • If there are two vertices, they must be connected, making a two-vertex star.
    — Patrick Honner, Quanta Magazine, 21 July 2023
  • In graph theory, however, the points are called vertices and the lines are called edges.
    — Arthur Benjamin, Scientific American, 2 Aug. 2017
  • For each bit of information, draw a vertex (or node), called a digit node.
    — Quanta Magazine, 24 Nov. 2021
  • So, the vertices that are indexing positions of my code word.
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Is there a path that will take you from the starting vertex on the bottom graph to the ending vertex on the top graph?
    — Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Because the n vertices of the area can be colored by three colors, at most, n/3 guards are needed.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 13 June 2026
  • The first was the average number of vertices, or corners, per polygon.
    — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2023
  • The Chrysler Building’s steel vertex was delivered in five pieces.
    — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2019
  • Like a spatial metric, these cells fired when an animal passed over the vertices of the triangles.
    — Matthew Schafer, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2020
  • In these structures, known as linear hypergraphs, no two edges are allowed to overlap at more than one vertex.
    — Quanta Magazine, 5 Apr. 2021
  • The different ways of ordering the cards can be arranged into a network of vertices and edges called a graph.
    — Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Deneb is apparently the faintest of the stellar triangle vertices, but don’t be fooled.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 14 July 2023
  • Since the cone has its vertex at the origin, the radius of each horizontal slice will be the x value of that function.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 2 Jan. 2013
  • Like a bent arm, the Hoyle state takes the shape of an obtuse triangle with an alpha particle at each vertex.
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 Dec. 2012
  • Each triangle’s endpoints coincide with the vertices, or corners, of the area.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 13 June 2026
  • If your shape casts a shadow that lacks three appropriate vertices, the local theorem won’t apply.
    — Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Meanwhile, each point represents a vertex at which four creases meet, the minimum needed for folding.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Their challenge was to extract an independent set using a large portion of vertices in the original graph.
    — Quanta Magazine, 30 Apr. 2024
  • Spaceflight causes greater free-water reduction around the vertex of the brain in female astronauts.
    — Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The second was the average number of polygons surrounding each vertex.
    — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2023
  • Draw some vertical posts between them — additional edges that connect some of the vertices on the bottom graph with their twin vertices on the top graph.
    — Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Initially, every vertex has the same probability of being open to the flow of water.
    — Allison Whitten, Wired, 11 July 2021
  • Many eyewitnesses described these craft-like objects as having three bright lights at each vertex and a central, red, pulsating light.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Graphs — collections of vertices (dots) linked by edges (lines) — provide an accessible, visual way to see what isomorphism can look like.
    — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 23 June 2023
  • For these quantum experiments, every path a photon takes is represented by a vertex.
    — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 2 July 2021
  • The algorithm’s goal, then, is to determine the most energy-efficient way that set of vertices can rotate or translate.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Sep. 2023
  • But last week one of my students located the vertex of a parabola in a particularly elegant way.
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 Sep. 2021

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