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sommet

Pronunciation: /sɔ.mɛ/

“sommet” is a French word. Its 4 meanings in English:

noun

  1. summit, peak
  2. summit (a conference of leaders)
  3. vertex (point on a curve with a local minimum or maximum of curvature)
  4. vertex, node

In French

  1. Partie la plus élevée de quelque chose.
  2. Degré le plus haut.
  3. En géométrie, point commun aux deux côtés d’un angle.
  4. Rassemblement de dirigeants, pour discuter de certains sujets.
  5. Point d’un graphe.
  6. Section unitaire d’un jeu de barres, qui ne peut être divisée par un appareillage.
  7. Dans un arbre binaire, chacun des points d’où part zéro, une ou deux arêtes. Syn.: nœud.

Etymology

Inherited from Old French somet, sommette, diminutive derivation of som (“highest part, top of a hill”) from Latin summum.

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