Geometric Terms
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| Point | A location in space.
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| Line | A geometric figure mabe up of infinitely many points.
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| Ray | A part of a line that starts at a point, the end point, and continues in one directiopn.
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| Midpoint | The point that divides a line segment into two congruent parts.
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| Bisector | A that intersects a line segement at its midpoint.
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| Perpendicular | Two lines segments, rays, or planes that intersect to form right angles.
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| Transformation | A change made to the size or position of a figure.
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| Translation | Transformation that slides each point of a figure thesame distance in thesame direction.
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| Reflection | A transformation that flips a figure over a line.
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| Rotation | A transformation in which every point moves along a circular path around a fixed point called the center of rotation.
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| trapezium | quadrilateral with one pair of parallel lines (British)
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| quadrilateral | plane shape with four straight lines
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| parallelogram | trapezium (quadrilateral) with opposite sides parallel
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| rectangle | quadrilateral with opposite sides equal & parallel; adjacent sides perpendicular
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| rhombus | equal sizes; opposite sides parallel (quadrilateral)
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| deltoid | quad. with 2 pair of adjacent, equal sides
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| square | rectangle with 4 equal sides
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| rhombi | plural of rhombus
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| trapezoid | American term for trapezium
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