Geometry Vocabulary
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greggygreg on November 14, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Midsegment | A special segment of a triangle that connects the midpoints of two sides of the triangle; this segment is parallel to the side of the triangle that it does not intersect and is half of that sides length |
| concurrent | three or more lines that intersect at one point |
| Point of concurrency | The point where three or more lines intersect |
| circumcenter | the point of concurrency of the perpendicular bisectors of a triangles |
| incenter | the point of concurrency of the angle bisectors of a triangle |
| median | a segment where one of its endpoints is a vertex and the other is the midpoint of the opposite side |
| centroid | balance point, concurrency of the medians |
| altitude | the perpendicular segment from a vertex to the line containing the opposite side. can be inside or outside. |
| orthocenter | the point of concurrency of the altitudes of a triangle |
| angle bisector | A ray that divides an angle into two congruent angles. |
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