Chrysalis geometry vocabulary
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| ray | a line that starts at a point and continues on forever
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| Acute angle | Having fewer than 90 degrees
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| Angle | Where two rays join
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| arc | A continuous part of a circle; measured by the degrees formed by the two radii at the endpoints
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| chord | A segment whose endpoints are on a circle
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| circumference | Distance around a circle
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| compass | Tool used to draw circles and arcs
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| concave | In a polygon, a vertex is a point inside
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| congruent | Shapes having the exact shape and size
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| convex | None of the vertices in a polygon are contained inside the polygon
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| coordinates | Numbers that correspond to a point on a line or graph
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| degree | Angle measure
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| diagonal | Segment that connects two vertices, but is not a side of a polygon
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| diameter | Chord that passes through the center point of
a circle
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| equilateral | All sides have the same length
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| hexagon | Polygon with six sides
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| isosceles | A triangle with two equal sides
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| line segment | A line that has two endpoints
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| obtuse angle | Having between 90 and 180 degrees
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| parallel | Always the same distance apart
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| pentagon | A polygon with five sides
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| perpendicular | Intersecting lines forming right angles
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| polygon | Closed, plane figure formed by line segments meeting at their endpoints
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| protractor | A device for measuring degrees in angles
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| quadrilateral | A polygon with four sides
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| radius | A segment from the center point to a point onthe circle
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| rectangle | A quadrilateral with four right angles
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| rhombus | A parallelogram with four congruent sides
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| right angle | Having exactly 90 degrees
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| scalene triangle | A triangle with no congruent (equal) sides
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| similar | Shapes having the exact shape, but a different size
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| square | A quadrilateral with four right angles and four congruent sides
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| symmetry | If you divide a shape in the middle, both sides are identical
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| trapezoid | A quadrilateral with only one pair of parallel lines
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| triangle | A polygon with 3 sides
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| vertex | Common endpoint of two rays that form an angle
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