Usually means: Highest point; peak; summit; culmination.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. apex: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Apex, apex: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. apex: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. apex: Collins English Dictionary
  5. apex: Vocabulary.com
  6. Apex, apex: Wordnik
  7. APEX, apex: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Apex, Apex: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. APEX, apex: Wiktionary
  10. apex: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. apex: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. apex: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. APEX: Dictionary.com
  14. apex: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. apex: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Apex: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. apex: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. apex: Rhymezone
  20. apex: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. apex: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. apex: Free Dictionary
  23. apex: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. apex: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. apex: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. apex: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. apex-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Apex: Glossary of Health Care Terms
  3. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  4. apex: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. apex: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Apex: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Orthodontic Terms (No longer online)
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  5. apex: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  6. apex: Medical dictionary
  7. Apex: Drug Medical Dictionary
  8. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. APEX: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. apex: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Apex: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  4. apex: Rhododendron Glossary
  5. Apex: Extragalactic Astronomy
  6. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  7. Apex: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia
  8. apex, apex: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  9. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Apex: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Internet Karting Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Apex: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The highest or the greatest part of something, especially forming a point.
noun:  (geometry) The highest point in a plane or solid figure, relative to a base line or plane.
noun:  (chiefly anatomy) The pointed fine end of something.
noun:  The lowest part of the human heart.
noun:  The deepest part of a tooth's root.
noun:  (botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ opposed to the end where it is attached to its support.
noun:  (botany) The growing point of a shoot.
noun:  (astronomy) The point on the celestial sphere toward which the Sun appears to move relative to nearby stars.
noun:  (physics) The lowest point on a pendant drop of a liquid.
noun:  (mining, US) The end or edge of a vein nearest the surface.
noun:  (typography):
noun:  A diacritic in Classical Latin that resembles and gave rise to the acute.
noun:  A diacritic in Middle Vietnamese that indicates /ŋ͡m/.
noun:  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".
noun:  (figuratively) The moment of greatest success, expansion, etc.
noun:  (attributive, ecology) The top of the food chain.
noun:  A conical priest cap.
noun:  (aviation) Acronym of advance purchase excursion (an air fare)
noun:  (medicine, nephrology) Acronym of accelerated peritoneal equilibration examination.
noun:  (British, trade union) Acronym of Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staff.

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