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Basic Vocabulary for Chapter 1 of Geometry

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point   A location with neither shape nor size  
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line   Made up of points and has no thickness or width  
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plane   flat surface made up of points that extend infinitely in all directions  
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collinear points   points that lie on the same line  
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coplanar points   points that lie in the same plane  
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line segment   Can be measured and has two endpoints  
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ray   part of a line that extends infinitely in one direction  
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opposite rays   two rays determined by a point on a line  
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intersection   two or more geometric figures is the set of points that they have in common  
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postulate   describes a fundamental relationship between the basic terms of geometry  
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distance between two points on a line   length of the segment with those points as endpoints  
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angle   formed by two noncollinear rays that have a common endpoint  
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acute angle   angle measurement is less that 90 degrees  
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obtuse angle   Angle measurement is over 90 degrees  
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right angle   angle measurement is exactly 90 degrees  
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straight angle   same as straight line; angle measurement is exactly 180 degrees  
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congruent angles   two or more angles that measure the same length  
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supplementary angles   Two angles with measures that have a sum of 180 degrees  
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angle bisector   A ray that divides an angle into two congruent angles  
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complementary angles   Two angles with measures that have a sum of 90 degrees  
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adjacent angles   two angles that lie in the same plane, have a common vertex and a common side, but no common interior points  
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linear pair   A pair of adjacent angles whose noncommon sides are opposite rays  
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vertical angles   Two nonadjacent angles formed by two intersecting lines  
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polygon   A closed figure formed by a finite number of coplanar segments called sides  
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convex polygon   A polygon for which there is no line that contains both a side of the polygon and a point in the interior of the polygon  
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concave polygon   A polygon for which there is a line containing a side of the polygon that also contains a point in the interior of the polygon.  
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n-gon   A polygon with n sides  
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equilateral polygon   A polygon with all equal sides  
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equiangular polygon   A polygon with all angles that are equal  
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regular polygon   A polygon with both sides and angles equal  
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