apex vs minimum

apex

noun
  • The top of the food chain. 

  • The moment of greatest success, expansion, etc. 

  • The end or edge of a vein nearest the surface. 

  • A conical priest cap. 

  • The highest point in a plane or solid figure, relative to a base line or plane. 

  • The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ opposed to the end where it is attached to its support. 

  • The growing point of a shoot. 

  • The deepest part of a tooth's root. 

  • A diacritic in Middle Vietnamese that indicates /ŋ͡m/. 

  • The highest or the greatest part of something, especially forming a point. 

  • A diacritic in Classical Latin that resembles and gave rise to the acute. 

  • The lowest part of the human heart. 

  • The point on the celestial sphere toward which the Sun appears to move relative to nearby stars. 

  • A sharp upward point formed by two strokes that meet at an acute angle, as in "W", uppercase "A", and closed-top "4", or by a tapered stroke, as in lowercase "t". 

  • The lowest point on a pendant drop of a liquid. 

minimum

adj
  • To the lowest degree. 

noun
  • The smallest amount. 

  • He always tries to get away with doing the minimum. 

  • The lowest limit. 

  • A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star). 

  • The smallest member of a batch or sample or the lower bound of a probability distribution. 

  • A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set. 

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