Definitions of geometry terms
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| parallel | lines in a plane that never meet
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| intersecting | to share a common point or points
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| line | one-dimensional straight path that extends forever in opposite directions
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| line segment | a part of a line between and including two endpoints
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| right angle | a 90 degree angle
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| closed figure | simple 2-dimensional figure, including shapes with straight and curved sides
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| diagonal | a straight line inside a shape that goes from one corner to another, but NOT an edge
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| kite | a quadrilaterial with two pairs of adjacent sides of equal length
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| parallelogram | a quadrilateral with two pairs of parallel sides
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| perpendicular | at right angles to
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| point | an exact location in space, usually labeled with capital letters
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| quadrilateral | a four-sided polygon
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| vertex/vertices | the point at which the rays of an angle, the sides of a polygon, or the edges of a polyhedron meet.
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| circle | a curved figure where all points on the edge are the same distance from the center point
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| figure | a symbol or shape
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| property/attribute | a feature of an object or common feature of a set of objects
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| rectangle | quadrilateral, parallelogram, all right angle corners
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| rhombus/rhombi | quadrilateral with all equal sides
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| side | one of the line segments that make up a polygon, one of the rays that form an angle, or one of the faces of a polygon
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| square | quadrilateral with equal sides and four right angles
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| trapezoid | quadrilateral with exactly one pair of parallel sides
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| triangle | polygon with 3 sides
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