Apex
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Apex may refer to:
- Apex (mollusc), the tip of the spire of the shell of a gastropod
- Apex (hat), a pointed piece of olive-wood, the base of which was surrounded with a lock of wool, worn by Roman priests
- Solar apex, the direction that our solar system travels through in our Galaxy
- Apex (radio band), an experimental very high frequency radio broadcasting system
- Apex (racing), the point a car should touch on the inside of a turn when following a proper line
- Apex (geometry), the highest vertex in a polyhedron or geometric solid
- Apex (botanical) is the Apical meristem or its remnant on a flower
Apex is the name of:
- Apex, North Carolina, a town in the United States
- Apex (Niaqunngut), a community on Baffin Island, part of Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada
- Apex Digital, a California-based electronics manufacturer
- Apex Digest, a Kentucky-based science fiction magazine
- Apex Stores, a Rhode Island-based department store chain
- Apex Theory, an alternative rock band.
- A supervillain on the TV show Portal
- Vympel R-23, an air-to-air missile (NATO reporting name "Apex")
- Apex (altitude physiology expeditions), a high altitude medical research charity.
APEX may stand for:
- APEX system (Additive System of Photographic Exposure), a system of exposure calculation based on Ev units, or stops
- Atacama Pathfinder Experiment, a radioastronomical project in the high Andes in the north of Chile
- Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staff, a British Trade Union
- Oracle Application Express (APEX), a free Oracle software development system