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Mathematics
10th Grade
10/19/2012

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Term
point
Definition

 precise location or place on a plane. Usually represented by a dot.\


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line
Definition

A line is a geometrical object that is straight, infinitely long and infinitely thin.


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segment
Definition

A segmet is the region between a chord of a circle and its associated arc.

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ray
Definition

A ray portion of a line which starts at a point and goes off in a particular direction to infinity


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plane
Definition

plane is a flat surface that is infinitely large and with zero thickness



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opposite rays
Definition

Opposite rays are two rays with a common endpoint that point in opposite directions and form a straight line


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collinear
Definition

Collinear is a set of points that lie in a straight line


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coplanar
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Coplanar is when two points are lying in the same plane


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angle
Definition

 An angle is a shape, formed by two lines or rays diverging from a common point (the vertex)


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midpoint
Definition

A midpoint is a point on a line segment that divides it into two equal parts.
The halfway point of a line segment.


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Bisector
Definition

A bisector is the line or line segment that divides the angle into two even parts.

 

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Congruent
Definition

Congruent means that two anlges or objects have the same size.

 

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Vertex
Definition

vertex (plural vertices) is a special kind of point that describes the corners or intersections of geometric shapes.

 

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Acute Angles
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Acute angles are angles that are less than 90 degrees.

 

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Obtuse Angles
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Obtuse angles are angles that are more than 90 degrees and less that 180 degrees

 

 

 

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Right Angles
Definition

Right angles are angles that have a measure of 90 degrees.

 

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Straight Angles
Definition

A straight angle is an angle that is eactly 180 degrees.

 

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Complementary angles
Definition

Coplementary angles are two angles that add up to 90 degrees.

 

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Supplementary angles
Definition

Supplementary angles are two angles that add up to 180 degrees.

 

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Vertical angles
Definition

Vertical angles are the angles opposite each other when they cross.

 

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Adjacent angles
Definition

Adjacent angles are angles that are on the same side or vertex.

 

 

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Linear pair
Definition

Linear pair means that two angles are adjcent and supplementary.

 

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Perpendicular lines
Definition

Perpendicular lines are lines that intersect at 90 degree angle.

 

 

 

 

 

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Polygon
Definition

A polygon is a flat shape consisting of straight lines that are joined to form a closed chain or circuit.

 

 

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Triangle
Definition

triangle is a polygon with three corners or vertices and three sides or edges which are line segments.

 

 

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Quadrilateral
Definition

quadrilateral is a polygon with four sides (or edges) and four vertices or corners.

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Pentagon
Definition

A pentagon  is any five sided polygon.

 

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Hexagon
Definition

A hexagon is is a polygon with six edges and six vertices.

 

 

 

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Octagon
Definition

An octagon is an eight sided polygon

 

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Decagon
Definition

decagon is any polygon with ten sides and ten angles.

 

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N-gon
Definition

An n-gon is where n is the number of the polygon's sides, also it could be used to name a polygon.

 

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Concave/Convex
Definition

The word concave means curving in or hollowed inward.

The word convex means curving out or bulging outward.

 

 

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Regular/ Irregular
Definition

A regular shape solid object has equal sides and equal angles.

An irregular solid object has the same amount of sides, but the lengths and angles are different.

 

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Diagnol
Definition

 A diagonal is a line joining two nonconsecutive vertices of a polygon

 

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Side
Definition

A side is the surface of an object, especially a surface joining a top and bottom.

 

 

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Perimeter
Definition

The perimeter is the total distance around a shape.

 

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