Have you ever woken up in the middle of a summer night at 4.36 am wondering: how is called the "dot" at the center of the shell? Well, me neither. But I'd like to share that:
It is called an apex (Latin for top, peak, summit).Congrats, now you're life has all the sudden taken a new course. Knowledge is powa! But as Shakespeare wrote:"What's in a name? That which we call a roseBy any other name would smell as sweet."Apex is just the referring term created to clarify the idea and the perception of theses "starting points".
The linguistic term is also reused in many disciplines to qualify the origin of "things", related sometimes to their"geometrical" peak.
Some examples:
- Apex is the Apical meristem or its remnant on a flower
- Solar apex, the direction that our solar system travels through in our Galaxy
- Apex is the anterior corner of a butterfly's wing, described in Glossary of entomology terms
- Apex (geometry), the highest vertex in a polyhedron or geometric solid
Sources: http://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/what-s-name-that-which-we-call-rose
cache of www.infovisual.info/02/010_fr.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apex
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apex
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