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Climax vs Vertex - What's the difference?

climax | vertex |

As nouns the difference between climax and vertex

is that climax is climax while vertex is the highest point of something.

climax

English

Noun

(es)
  • The point of greatest intensity or force in an ascending series; a culmination
  • * 1949 , Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart,
    • The snowshoe-rabbits build up through the years until they reach a climax when the seem to be everywhere; then with dramatic suddenness their pestilence falls upon them.
  • The turning point in a plot or in dramatic action, especially one marking a change in the protagonist's affairs.
  • (ecosystem)(label) A stage of ecological development in which a community of organisms is stable and capable of perpetuating itself.
  • (slang) An orgasm.
  • (rhetoric) Ordering of terms in increasing order of importance or magnitude.
  • (rhetoric) Anadiplosis.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Coordinate terms

    * (order by increasing importance) catacosmesis

    Derived terms

    * climactic * climax community

    Related terms

    * climacteric

    Verb

    (es)
  • To reach or bring to a climax
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  • To orgasm; to reach orgasm

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    vertex

    English

    (wikipedia vertex)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The highest point of something.
  • (anatomy) The highest surface on the skull.
  • (geometry) The common point of the two rays of the angle, or its equivalent structure in polyhedra (meeting of edges) and higher order polytopes.
  • (mathematics) A point on the curve with a local minimum or maximum of curvature.
  • (graph theory) One of the elements of a graph joined or not by edges to other vertices.
  • (computer graphics) A point in space, usually given in terms of its Cartesian coordinates.
  • (optics) The point where the surface of a lens crosses the optical axis.
  • (nuclear, or, particle physics) An interaction point.
  • (astrology) The point where the prime vertical meets the ecliptic in the western hemisphere of a natal chart.

    • Synonyms

    * (highest point) acme, apex, peak, top * (part of a graph) node

    Derived terms

    * vertexal, vertexial

    See also

    * Mathworld article on vertices of polyhedra * Mathworld article on verticies of polygons ----