The apex is the highest point of something. The word may also refer to:

Arts and media

Fictional entities

* Apex (comics), a teenaged super villainess in the Marvel Universe *

Ape-X Abomination Absorbing Man Abraxas Abraxas, sometimes called the Dark Man, is a cosmic entity who embodies the destruction of the Marvel multiverse. The existence of Galactus prevents him from emerging. The character, created by Carlos Pach ...

, a super-intelligent ape in the Squadron Supreme universe *Apex, a genetically-engineered human population in the TV series ''The Crossing''

Music

* ''Apex'' (album), by Canadian heavy metal band Unleash the Archers *

Apex (band) Apex was a Polish heavy metal, hard rock and progressive rock band. It was started in 1980, in Prudnik. History The band was formed in 1980 in Prudnik. It performed mostly hard rock songs and ballads. It was considered to be one of the best ...

, a Polish heavy metal band *

Apex (musician) Robert Dickeson, (16 August 1981 – 30 September 2017) known by his stage names Apex and Robert Oaks was a British drum and bass music producer and DJ from Kent, England. Early life Dickeson was born on 16 August 1981 in Dartford, United K ...

(1981–2017), British drum and bass music producer and DJ * The Apex Theory, the former name of the alternative rock band Mt. Helium * Lord Apex, a rapper from West London, UK

Video games

Apex (tournament) Apex was an annual esports tournament held in New Jersey that was focused on '' Super Smash Bros.'' The event's first incarnation was in 2009 with Jesus "Jman" Fernandez as the champion of '' Super Smash Bros. Melee'' and Elliot "Ally" Carroza-O ...

, a fighting game tournament focusing on ''Super Smash Bros.'' * ''APEX'' (video game), a 2003 video game for the Xbox * Overwatch Apex, a South Korean ''Overwatch'' tournament series * '' Apex Legends'', a 2019 video game developed by Respawn Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts

Other media

* ''

A.P.E.X. ''A.P.E.X'' is a 1994 science fiction action film directed by Phillip J. Roth and starring Richard Keats, Mitchell Cox, Lisa Ann Russell, and Marcus Aurelius. The plot concerns a group of scientists who explore the past using robotic probes know ...

'', a 1994 science fiction film * ''Apex'' (film), an American action film starring Bruce Willis * ''Apex'' (Ramez Naam novel), a 2015 cyber-punk novel * ''

Apex Magazine ''Apex Magazine'', also previously known as ''Apex Digest'', is an American horror and science fiction magazine. This subscription webzine, ''Apex Magazine'', contains short fiction, reviews, and interviews. It has been nominated for several awa ...

'', an American horror and science fiction magazine * '' APEX: The Story of the Hypercar'', a 2015 American documentary

Organizations

For-profit businesses

* APEX Airlines, a charter and scheduled airline based in Yangon, Myanmar * Apex Digital, a California-based electronics manufacturer *

Apex Hotels Apex Hotels is an operator of three star and four star hotels based in Edinburgh, Scotland. The company operates ten hotels in the United Kingdom. History Executive Chairman of Apex Hotels, Norman Springford, was previously an employee of ...

, a UK operator of four star hotels *

Apex Records (Canada) Apex Records was a Canadian record label owned by the Compo Company which lasted as late as 1980. Compo established the Apex label in July 1921 in Toronto. It released American recordings from Okeh Records and Gennett Records, among others. It al ...

, a record label of Compo Company *

Apex Silver Mines Golden Minerals (formerly known as Apex Silver Mines), was founded by Thomas Kaplan, from Denver, Colorado. It is a US-American transnational mining corporation with a tax haven address in the Cayman Islands. Following its reorganization under C ...

, a US-American mining company * Apex Stores, a Rhode Island-based department store chain * Apex Studios, a recording studio in Manhattan, New York City * Apple Productivity Experience Group, an operating unit of Microsoft developing software for Apple products

Other organizations

* Apex (altitude physiology expeditions), a high altitude medical research charity * Apex (gang), an unstructured criminal gang in Melbourne, Australia *

Apex Clubs of Australia The Association of Apex Clubs of Australia is an Australia-wide association of autonomous clubs dedicated to fellowship, self-improvement, and community service, similar to other service clubs such as Lions International but with a younger mem ...

, an association of young individuals * '' Applied Physics Express'', a scientific peer-reviewed journal * Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staff, a British Trade Union

Places

* Apex, Arizona * Apex, Missouri, community in the United States * Apex, North Carolina, town in the United States *

Apex, Nunavut Apex ( Inuktitut ''Niaqunngut'') is a small community in Iqaluit located on Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada. It is about southeast of Iqaluit on a small peninsula separating Koojesse (Kuujussi) Inlet from Tarr Inlet. Historically Apex was t ...

, community in Canada *

Apex Park and Recreation District The Apex Park and Recreation District is a park and recreation district located in the northeastern portion of Jefferson County, Colorado Jefferson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the populati ...

, in Colorado * Apex Mountain Resort, a ski resort near Penticton, British Columbia, Canada *

Apex Town Hall (historic) The Apex Town Hall, called Apex City Hall in the National Register of Historic Places is a historic town hall at 237 N Salem Street in the historic district of downtown Apex, North Carolina. It was built in 1912 after the June 12, 1911, fire de ...

, Apex, North Carolina

Science and mathematics

Anatomy

* Apex (entomology), the anterior corner of a butterfly's wing * Apex (mollusc), the tip of the spire of the shell of a gastropod * Apex, the apical meristem or its remnant on a flower * Apex of the root of a tooth, the tip or extreme end of a root *

Apex (leaf) A leaf (plural, : leaves) is any of the principal appendages of a vascular plant plant stem, stem, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis. Leaves are collectively called foliage, as in "autumn foliage", wh ...

, the tip of a leaf *

Apex of lung The lungs are the primary organs of the respiratory system in humans and most other animals, including some snails and a small number of fish. In mammals and most other vertebrates, two lungs are located near the backbone on either side of t ...

, the uppermost portion of lung * Apex of the heart, the lowest superficial part of the heart *

Apex of the tongue The tongue is a muscular organ in the mouth of a typical tetrapod. It manipulates food for mastication and swallowing as part of the digestive process, and is the primary organ of taste. The tongue's upper surface (dorsum) is covered by taste bu ...

, the tip of the tongue

Mathematics

* Apex (geometry), the highest vertex in a polyhedron or the point where the two equal sides of an isosceles triangle meet * Apex graph, a graph that can be made planar by the removal of a single vertex

Other sciences

* Apex predator, a predator at the top of a food chain, with no natural predators *

Solar apex The solar apex, or the apex of the Sun's way, refers to the direction that the Sun travels with respect to the local standard of rest. This is not to be confused with the Sun's apparent motion through all constellations of the zodiac, which is ...

, the direction in which the Solar System travels through the Milky Way * Acetone peroxide, a highly explosive organic peroxide

Technology

Computing

* Apex (programming language), Java-like proprietary programming language *

Apache Apex Apache Apex is a YARN-native platform that unifies stream and batch processing. It processes big data-in-motion in a way that is scalable, performant, fault-tolerant, stateful, secure, distributed, and easily operable. Apache Apex was named a top ...

, an open-source streaming platform built on top of Hadoop * Apple Productivity Experience Group, an operating unit of Microsoft developing software for Apple products *

Oracle Application Express Oracle APEX (also known as APEX or Oracle Application Express) is an enterprise low-code development platform from Oracle Corporation that is used to develop and deploy web applications on Oracle databases. APEX provides a web-based integrat ...

, a proprietary Oracle software development system *

BrailleNote Apex A BrailleNote is a computer made by HumanWare for persons with visual impairments. It has either a braille keyboard or a Qwerty Keyboard, a speech synthesizer, and a 32- or 18-column refreshable Braille display, depending on model. The "VoiceNote" ...

, a personal digital assistant for the blind * Apex, a game engine created by

Avalanche Studios Avalanche Studios Group is a Swedish video game developer and publisher based in Stockholm. It is a parent company that includes Avalanche Studios, Expansive Worlds, and Systemic Reaction. Founded by Linus Blomberg and Christofer Sundberg in Ma ...

Other technologies

Apex (racing) In motorsport, the racing line is the optimal path around a race course. In most cases, the line makes use of the entire width of the track to lengthen the radius of a turn: entering at the outside edge, touching the "apex"—a point on the inside ...

, the point a car should touch on the inside of a turn when following a proper line * Apex (radio band), an experimental very high frequency radio broadcasting system *

Additive System of Photographic Exposure APEX stands for Additive System of Photographic Exposure, which was proposed in the 1960 ASA standard for monochrome film speed, ASA PH2.5-1960, as a means of simplifying exposure computation. Exposure equation Until the late 1960s, cameras did ...

, a system of exposure calculation based on Ev units, or stops *

Advanced Photovoltaic Experiment Advanced Photovoltaic and Electronics Experiments, also known as APEX, was a satellite-based science mission launched into Low Earth orbit on August 3, 1994, by a Pegasus rocket. The mission successfully tested the use of photovoltaic and electroni ...

, a scientific research satellite * Atacama Pathfinder Experiment, a radio telescope operated by the European Southern Observatory *

R-23 (missile) The Vympel R-23 ( NATO reporting name AA-7 ''Apex'') is a medium-range air-to-air missile developed by Vympel in the Soviet Union for fighter aircraft. An updated version with greater range, the R-24, replaced it in service. It is comparable ...

, an air-to-air missile (NATO reporting name "Apex")

Other uses

* Apex (diacritic), a sign used by the Romans to mark long vowels * Apex (typography), an upward pointing shape in certain letters *

Apex (headdress) The apex (plural: ''apices'') was a cap worn by certain priests, the flamines and Salii, in ancient Rome. The essential part of the apex, to which alone the name properly belonged, was a pointed piece of olive-wood, the base of which was surro ...

, a cap worn in ancient Rome * , a Panamanian cargo ship in service 1958–68