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Definition

the highest point of something

The "highest point" can be physical or metaphorical — as in the apex of his career.

Much more rarely, "Apex" is used in the travel industry as an acronym for "advance-purchase excursion"; i.e., to reference tickets that are discounted due to advance purchase.

It was written during the apex of Roman power, wealth, and stability.

apex = the highest point

She recorded the song at the apex of her popularity.

apex = highest point

They're called apex predators because they're at the top of the food chain.

apex = highest point

Cables radiate from the apex of the building to the edge beams.

apex = highest point

Then, at the apex, the grass was thick again because no one sat there.
William Golding -- Lord of the Flies

apex = highest point

She understood her own feelings had reached an apex she could never express with words.
Nora Roberts -- Summer Pleasures
CHEOPS: pyramid chess; nine-level chess with the double object of putting your queen at the apex and the opponent's king in check.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
It pulsed like a living thing—I could feel it, from the apex to the edges.
Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
Everything in readiness, I made a line fast to the apex of the shears and carried it directly to the windlass.
Jack London -- Sea Wolf
At the apex of the curve the only course led away from the rim, and here there was no level.
Zane Grey -- The Rainbow Trail
Clopin Trouillefou had placed himself at the apex with the Duke of Egypt, our friend Jehan, and the most daring of the scavengers.
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Moving toward the apex of Mount Kilimanjaro.
Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore
Well out from either bank stood four low arches—scarcely more than culverts, each filled by the stream to within a foot of the apex.
Richard Adams -- Watership Down
—ezundant diviso vertice flammae Alternosque apices abrupta luce coruscant.
Dante Alighieri -- Dante's Inferno
That was the apex of his dream.
Zane Grey -- The Border Legion
At the apex of the pyramid comes Big Brother.
George Orwell -- 1984
Its apex might be likened to a point.
Jack London -- White Fang
Lumpy and wet, they sagged inward near the roof to form an arch, with an apex lost beyond the feeble light of my lamp.
Megan Whalen Turner -- The Thief
"Someone painted a rune in demon blood on the apex of one of the towers," Luke said with a sigh, "so, clearly, Hodge was right.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Glass
It stretched eighty-one feet skyward to the pyramidal apex onto which was affixed a hollow iron cross.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons

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