For the bigger-is-better type student, the 10 universities with the largest undergraduate populations in fall 2013 enrolled an average of 43,186 students. Among the 1,248 ranked universities responding to an annual U.S. News survey, the average was 6,154.
In geometry, a vertex (plural vertices) is a special kind of point that describes the corners or intersections of geometric shapes.
Vertex of a Parabola. A parabola is the shape defined by a quadratic equation. The vertex is the peak in the curve as shown on the right. The peak will be pointing either downwards or upwards depending on the sign of the x 2 term.