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Ch.1-6 Definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| undefined terms | point, line,plane |
| adjacent angles | nonoverlapping angles that share a vertex and side |
| counterexample | an example that meets the definition but isn't what it's describing |
| skew lines | non-coplanar lines that don't intersect |
| vertical angles | non adjacent angles formed by intersecting lines |
| polygon | a closed figure in a plane, connecting line segments endpt. to endpt., each segment intersects two others |
| quad. | 4 sided polygon with atleast one pair of congruent sides |
| undecagon | 11 sided polygon |
| regular polygon | all angles and sides congruent |
| right triangle | triangle with one right angle |
| acute triangle | all angles are acute |
| obtuse triangle | only one obtuse angle |
| isc. triangle | atleast 2 congruent sides |
| trapezoid | quadrilateral w/ exactly one pair of parallel lines |
| isc. trapezoid | non parallel sides are congruent |
| kite | quad with 2 pairs of consecutive congruent sides |
| parallelogram | quad. with both pairs of sides parallel |
| rhombus | pgram w/ all congruent sides |
| rectangle | pgram w/ 4 right angles |
| square | pgram w/ 4 right angles & all congruent sides |
| circle | set of pts on a plane that have a radius & a center pt |
| congruent circles | same radius |
| concentric circles | circles that share the same center |
| minor arc | arc smaller than a semicircle |
| major arc | arc bigger than a semicircle |
| geometry | a way to measure earth |
| inductive reasoning | based on experience |
| deductive reasoning | based on rules |
| transversal | line that intersects parallel lines |
| incenter | the pt of concurrency for angle bisectors of an triangle |
| circumcenter | the pt. of concurrency for perpendicular bisectors of a triangle |
| Centroid | center of gravity, pt. of concurrency for 3 medians |
| arc length | distance from one endpoint of an arc to the other endpoint of the arc |
| isometric | drawing that shows 3 sides of an object in one view |