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Triangle Centers...
Triangle Centers and special segments
Term | Definition |
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circumcenter | Point of concurrency of Perpendicular Bisectors |
centroid | Point of concurrency of Medians |
orthocenter | Point of concurrency of Altitudes |
incenter | Point of concurrency of Angle Bisectors |
incenter | a point equidistant from the sides of a triangle |
circumcenter | a point equidistant from the vertices of a triangle |
incenter | the point you use to inscribe a circle in a triangle |
circumcenter | the point you use to circumscribe a circle about a triangle |
centroid | the point 2/3 of the distance from each vertex to the midpoint of the opposite side |
circumcenter and orthocenter | the only 2 points of concurrency that can be OUTSIDE or ON an obtuse triangle |
midsegment | a segment that divides 2 sides of a triangle in half AND is parallel to the 3rd side |