Apex may refer to:

Arts and media

Fictional entities

  • Apex (comics), a teenaged super villainess in the Marvel Universe
  • Ape-X, a super-intelligent ape in the Squadron Supreme universe
  • Apex, a genetically engineered human population in the TV series The Crossing
  • APEX Medical Hospital, a fictional hospital in the Filipino TV series Abot-Kamay na Pangarap

Music

  • Apex (album), by Canadian heavy metal band Unleash the Archers
  • Apex (band), a Polish heavy metal band
  • Apex (musician) (1981–2017), British drum and bass music producer and DJ
  • The Apex Theory, the former name of the alternative rock band Mt. Helium
  • Lord Apex, a rapper from West London, UK

Video games

  • Apex (tournament), a fighting game tournament focusing on Super Smash Bros.
  • Racing Evoluzione, also known as Apex, a 2003 video game for the Xbox
  • Overwatch Apex, a South Korean Overwatch tournament series
  • Apex Legends, a 2019 video game developed by Respawn Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts

Film

  • A.P.E.X., a 1994 science fiction film
  • Apex (2021 film), an American action film directed by Edward John Drake and starring Bruce Willis
  • Apex (2026 film), action-thriller directed by Baltasar Kormákur and starring Charlize Theron
  • Apex: The Story of the Hypercar, a 2015 American documentary
  • F1 (film), a sports drama starring Brad Pitt, which was codenamed Apex during development
  • Apex (Alfred Hitchcock Presents), an episode of the American TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Literature

  • Apex (Ramez Naam novel), a 2015 cyber-punk novel
  • Apex Magazine, an American horror and science fiction magazine

Organizations

For-profit businesses

  • APEX Airlines, a charter and scheduled airline based in Yangon, Myanmar
  • Apex Digital, a California-based electronics manufacturer
  • Apex Hotels, a UK operator of four star hotels
  • Apex Records, a former Canadian record label
  • Apex Silver Mines, a US-American mining company
  • Apex Stores, a Rhode Island–based department store chain
  • Apex Studios, a recording studio in Manhattan, New York City
  • Apex Tool Group, an American supplier of hand and power tools
  • Apple Productivity Experience Group, an operating unit of Microsoft developing software for Apple products

Other organizations

  • Apex (gang), an unstructured criminal gang in Melbourne, Australia
  • Apex Clubs of Australia, an association of young individuals
  • Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staff, a British Trade Union

Places

  • Apex, Arizona
  • Apex, Missouri, community in the United States
  • Apex, North Carolina, town in the United States
  • Apex, Nunavut, community in Canada
  • Apex Park and Recreation District, in Colorado
  • Apex Mountain Resort, a ski resort near Penticton, British Columbia, Canada
  • Apex Town Hall (historic), Apex, North Carolina
  • UFC Apex

Science and mathematics

Anatomy

  • Apex (entomology), the anterior corner of an insect's wing
  • Apex (mollusc), the tip of the spire of the shell of a gastropod
  • Shoot apex, the apical meristem of a plant or its remnant on a flower
  • Root apex (botany), the apical meristem of the root
  • Root apex (dental), the extreme end of the root of a tooth
  • Apex (leaf), the tip of a leaf
  • Apex of lung, the uppermost portion of lung
  • Apex of the heart, the lowest superficial part of the heart
  • Apex of the tongue, the tip of the tongue

Chemistry

  • Acetone peroxide, a highly explosive organic peroxide
  • Ascorbate peroxidase, an enzyme that catalyses the reaction between biotin-phenol and hydrogen peroxide

Mathematics

  • Apex (geometry), the highest vertex in a polyhedron or the point where the two equal sides of an isosceles triangle meet
  • Apex graph, a graph that can be made planar by the removal of a single vertex

Other sciences

  • Apex (dinosaur), a fossilized Stegosaurus
  • Apex predator, a predator at the top of a food chain, with no natural predators
  • Applied Physics Express, a scientific peer-reviewed journal
  • Solar apex, the direction in which the Solar System travels through the Milky Way

Technology

Computing

  • Apex (programming language), Java-like proprietary programming language
  • Apache Apex, an open-source streaming platform built on top of Hadoop
  • Apple Productivity Experience Group, an operating unit of Microsoft developing software for Apple products
  • Oracle Application Express, a proprietary Oracle software development system
  • BrailleNote Apex, a personal digital assistant for the blind
  • Apex, a game engine created by Avalanche Studios

Other technologies

  • Apex (racing), the point a car should touch on the inside of a turn when following a proper line
  • Apex (radio band), an experimental very high frequency radio broadcasting system
  • Additive System of Photographic Exposure, a system of exposure calculation based on Ev units, or stops
  • Advanced Photovoltaic Experiment, a scientific research satellite
  • Atacama Pathfinder Experiment, a radio telescope operated by the European Southern Observatory
  • R-23 (missile), an air-to-air missile (NATO reporting name "Apex")

Other uses

  • Apex (diacritic), an upward pointing shape in certain letters to mark long vowels
  • Apex (headdress), a cap worn in ancient Rome
  • , a Panamanian cargo ship in service 1958–68
  • ApEX (Counter-Strike), French Counter-Strike player

See also

  • Ampex
  • Apical (disambiguation)
  • Aphex (disambiguation)