Corsa Chapter 4 Vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 acute angle | an angle with measure greater than 0 degrees and less than 90 degrees |
| acute triangle | a triangle in which all three angle measures are less than 90 degrees |
| area | the measure in square units of the interior region of a plane figure or the surface of a three dimensional figure |
| area of triangle | base times height and divide by two |
| base | a special side of a polygon used to compute area |
| composite figure | a shape made of several simpler figures |
| diagonal | a segment that joins two vertices of a polygon and is not one of the sides |
| division | inverse of multiplication |
| equilateral triangle | triangle with all three sides the same length |
| height | the perpendicular distance between two bases, or a vertex and a base |
| hexagon | a polygon with 6 sides |
| isosceles triangle | a triangle with at least two sides equal in length |
| line segment | a part of a line with endpoints |
| obtuse angle | an angle greater than 90 degrees and less than 180 degrees |
| octagon | a polygon with eight sides |
| parallel | two lines which never intersect and are the same distance apart |
| parallelogram | a quadrilateral with opposite sides parallel |
| pentagon | a polygon with five sides |
| perpendicular | lines, segments or rays that intersect to form right angles |
| polygon | a two dimensional closed figure with straight line segments connected end to end |
| quadrilateral | a polygon with four sides |
| ray | a portion of a line that has one endpoint and extends forever in one direction |
| rectangle | a quadrilateral with four right angles |
| regular polygon | a polygon with all sides congruent and all angles having the same measure |
| rhombus | a quadrilateral with four congruent sides |
| right angle | an angle with a measure of 90 degrees |
| right triangle | a triangle with one right angle in it |
| scalene triangle | a triangle with no two sides of equal length |
| square | a quadrilateral with four congruent sides and four rigth angles |
| square measure | units used to describe the measure of an area in the form of 1 * 1 unit squares |
| subproblems | a problem solving strategy which breaks problems into smaller parts which must be solved in order to solve the original problem |
| trapezoid | quadrilateral with exactly one pair of parallel sides |
| triangle | a polygon with three sides |
| vertex | the point at which two rays, line segments or lines meet. |
| vertical angles | angles opposite each other when two lines intersect. |
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