Usually means: Vertex of a convex set.
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  1. extreme point: Vocabulary.com
  2. extreme point: Wiktionary
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  4. Extreme point (disambiguation), Extreme point: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  6. extreme point: Free Dictionary
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  1. extreme point: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. extreme point: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  2. extreme point: Encyclopedia

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  2. extreme point, extreme point: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (extreme point)

noun:  (mathematics) A point in a convex set which does not lie in any open line segment joining two points in the set.
noun:  (mathematics) The maximum or minimum of a function.
noun:  (mathematics) A leaf vertex of a tree data structure.
noun:  A point that is physically located farthest in the direction of the edge of something.
noun:  A standpoint that goes farthest in some dimension or on some criterion.

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