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morgan's geometry vocabulary & things

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point   an exact location on a plane surface  
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line   goes on forever in both directions, 180 degrees  
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line segment   a section of a line with two end points  
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ray   goes on forever in one direction, has one end point  
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parallel lines   lines that are the same distance apart and they will never intersect  
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perpendicular lines   2 lines that intersect and form 4 right angles  
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angles   geometric shapes that are formed wherever 2 rays share a common end point  
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right angle   exactly 90 degrees  
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acute angle   smaller than a right angle  
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obtuse angle   larger than a right angle, smaller than a line  
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strait angle   exactly 180 degrees  
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congruent   figures that have the same shape and size, all sides and angles are equal  
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polygon   a closed figure made of line segments  
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quadrilateral   four sided polygon, includes : rectangle, square, rhombus, parallelogram, and trapezoid  
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rhombus   a parallelogram with four equal sides  
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square   a parallelogram with four equal sides and four right angles  
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rectangle   4 sides, 4 right angles, opposite sides are equal and parallel  
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trapezoid   4 sided figure, exactly one pair of parallel lines  
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pentagon   5 sided polygon  
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hexagon   6 sided polygon  
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heptagon   7 sided polygon  
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octagon   8 sided polygon  
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decagon   10 sided polygon  
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line of symmetry   a line that divides a figure into 2 mirror images  
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vertex or vertices   a point were line segments meet, it is called vertices when there are more than one point  
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right triangle   a right triangle has exactly one right angle  
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acute triangle   acute triangles have 3 acute angles  
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obtuse triangle   an obtuse triangle has exactly one obtuse angle  
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