geovocab5.txt

  1. Perpendicular Bisector
    Line, segment, or ray that passes through the midpoint of the side and is perpendicular to that side.
  2. Concurrent Lines
    When 3 or more lines intersect at a common point.
  3. Point of Concurrency
    The point of intersection of concurrent lines.
  4. Circumcenter
    The point of concurrency of the perpendicular bisectors of a triangle.
  5. Median
    A segment whose endpoints are a vertex of a triangle and the midpoint of the side opposite the vertex. Every triangle has 3.
  6. Centroid
    The point of concurrency for the medians of a triangle.
  7. Altitude
    Segment from a vertex to the line containing the opposite side & perpendicular to the line containing that side.
  8. Orthocenter
    The intersection points for the altitudes of a triangle.
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geovocab5.txt
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Geometry Vocab partially from Chapter 5
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