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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Geometry | The study of shapes |
| Point | No exact location in a space that has no size |
| Plane | Infinitely many intersecting lines in which extend forever in all directions |
| Space | The set of all of the points expanding in three dimensions |
| Collinear | Points that lie in the same line |
| Coplanar | Points which live in the same plane |
| Endpoint | Point at the end of the line |
| Line segment | Part of a line with two endpoints |
| Ray | Part of a line with only one endpoint that extends forever |
| Intersection | A point or set of points where lines, planes, or rays intersect eachother |
| Postulates | Basic rules of geometry |
| Theorem | A statement that can be proven true |
| Translation | Moves every point in a figure the same distance and same direction |
| Reflection | A transformation that turns a figure into its mirror image by flipping it |
| Line of reflection | The line a figure is reflected over |
| Rotation | A transformation by which a figure is turned around to create an image |
| Center of rotation | The fixed point that a figure is rotated on |
| Composition | To preform more than one rigid transformations on a figure |
| Glide reflection | A composition of a reflection and a translation parallel to the line of reflection |