49097 - Introducing Geometry
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| point | smallest building block of geometry; has no size and indicates location
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| line | a building block of geometry; made up of points, has no thickness, goes on forever in two directions
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| plane | a building block of geometry; made up of points, has no thickness, is a flat surface that goes on forever
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| collinear | points on the same line
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| coplanar | points on the same plane
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| segment | part of a line that has two enpoints
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| congruent | having the same shape, size, and measurement
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| measure of segment | length: measured in inches, centimeters, feet, etc.
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| endpoints | two points at the end of a segment; all other points are between and collinear with the endpoints
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| congruent segments | segments with the same length; shown in a picture with tickmarks
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| midpoint | point on a segment that is the same distance from both endpoints
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| bisect | to divide in two congruent parts
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| ray | part of a line with one endpoing and goes on forever in one direction
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| angle | two rays with a common endpoint
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| vertex | the common endpoint of two rays
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| sides of an angle | rays that go on forever
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| measure of an angle | smallest amount of rotation around the vertex from one ray to the other; measured in degrees; measured with a protractor
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| congruent angles | angles with the same measure (use arcmarks in the picture!)
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| angle bisector | divides an angle into two congruent parts
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| counterexample | something that fits a definition but isn't what you intended
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| right angle | an angle whose measure is 90 degrees
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| acute angle | an angle whose measure is less than 90 but greater than 0
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| obtuse angle | an angle whose measure is greater than 90 but less than 180
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| vertical angle | formed by two intersecting lines, they share a vertex but not a side
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| linear pair | two angles that share a vertex and a side and their non-common sides form a line
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| complementary | two angles whose measures add up to 90 degrees
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| supplementary | two angles whose measures add up to 180 degrees
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| parallel | lines that will never intersect and are on the same plane
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| skew | lines that will never intersect and are not on the same plane
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| perpendicular | lines that intersect at a 90 degree angle
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| polygon | a closed plane figure whose sides are segments that connect at their endpoints
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| diagonal of a polygon | a segment that connects two non-consecutive vertices in a polygon
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| equilateral | a polygon whose sides are all congruent
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| equiangular | a polygon whose angles are all congruent
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| regular | a polygon that is both equilateral and equiangular
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| convex | a polygon with no external diagonals
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| concave | a polygon with at least a part of a diagonal outside of the polygon
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| right triangle | a triangle with one right angle
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| acute triangle | a triangle with three acute angles
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| obtuse triangle | a triangle with one obtuse angle
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| equiangular triangle | a triangle with three congruent angles
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| scalene triangle | a triangle with no congruent sides
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| isosceles triangle | a triangle with at least two congruent sides
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| equilateral triangle | a triangle with all three sides congruent
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