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AnielMath8Unit2

Math 8 Unit 2 Vocabulary

TermDefinition
Dilation A change in size using a center and a scale factor creating a similar figure.
Similar Shapes that are the same, but one is a dilation of the other. Their corresponding sides are proportional, and their corresponding angles are congruent.
Slope The quotient of the vertical distance and the horizontal distance between any two points on a line.
Center of Dilation The point an object's dilation is measured from.
Coordinate Plane A two dimensional surface formed by two intersecting and perpendicular number lines.
Coordinates They describe the location of a single point on a coordinate plane.
Diagonal A line that goes through vertices of a polygon that are not next to each other.
Length The distance between two points.
Origin The intersection of the x and y axes in a coordinate plane, described by the ordered pair (0,0)
Polygon A closed plane figure made by line segments.
Proportional Describes a constant numerical relationship between two objects.
Quotient The answer to a division problem.
Ratio The comparison of two quantities.
Scale Factor The value you multiply one objects measurement by to get the second objects measurement in a dilation.
Scaled Copy Every length in the original figure is increased or decreased by the same scaled factor.
Slope Triangle Right triangles used to find the slope of a line.
Created by: anielam
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