extreme point

1. 1.

   the point located farthest from the middle of something

   Synonymsextremeextremum

   Broaderextremity

   Narrowervertex

Questions about extreme point

What does extreme point mean?

extreme point means "the point located farthest from the middle of something".

What is another word for extreme point?

Close synonyms include extreme, extremum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is extreme point a common word?

extreme point is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.