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Definition of Extreme point

1. Noun. The point located farthest from the middle of something.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Extreme Point

Literary usage of Extreme point

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Around the extreme point this new coast line is from 100 to 150 feet high ; nearer the pali it is not so much; at Kalawao, the eastern side, ..."

2. A History of the Protestant "reformation," in England and Ireland: Showing ...by William Cobbett by William Cobbett (1824)
"... most truly tyrannical: base and corrupt: :"rom bottom to top; from the root to the topmost twig ; from :be trunk to the extreme point of every branch. ..."

3. The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh: Three by James Mackintosh (1848)
"They have * Coppet, near Geneva. reached the extreme point towards which the general sentiment of Europe has been impelled by the calamities of a ..."

4. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander, Alexander James William Morrison (1852)
"f We see here the most extreme point of realistic externalization to which the interest to retain the objective side unimpaired could bear to be pushed ..."

5. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1900)
"One such pencil of rays proceeds from the point at the extreme tip of the arrow, another from the extreme point at the other end, and other pencils from all ..."

6. A Text book of physiology by Michael Foster (1894)
"In a similar way a straight line drawn through the nodal point from the extreme point of the other end of the arrow, and continued until it meets the retina ..."

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