Square | | a circle drawn around a polygon so that each vertex of the polygon lies on the circle |
Radius | | an angle with measure of 180 degrees (2 wds) |
Obtuse triangle | | an angle with measure of 90 degrees (2 wds) |
Cube | | a rectangular solid with square faces |
Scalene | | a segment joining two non-consecutive vertices of a polygon |
Equilateral | | any perpendicular segment connecting a vertex to an opposite side |
Right angle | | two angles in a plane that have a common vertex and a common side but no common interior points (2 wds) |
Rhombus | | the set of all points in space that are a given distance from a given point |
Hexagon | | a quadrilateral with exactly one pair of parallel sides |
Theorem | | a triangle with at least two congruent sides |
Supplementary | | a segment whose endpoints lie on a circle |
Pentagon | | two triangles with sides of equal length and angles of equal measure (2 wds) |
Vertical angles | | a line, segment or ray that intersects a segment or angle and forms two congruent segments or angles |
Sphere | | an arc of a circle cut off by the diameter |
Transversal | | the figure formed by three segments joining noncollinear points |
Complementary | | two points on a line and all the points between them |
Segment | | an angle with measure between 90 and 180 degrees (2 wds) |
Chord | | in a right triangle a side adjacent to the right angle |
Perpendicular lines | | segments that have equal length (2 wds) |
Diameter | | an equation stating that two ratios are equal |
Secant | | an angle formed by two radii drawn to consecutive vertices (2 wds) |
Postulate | | the angle formed when one side of a polygon is extended (2 wds) |
Acute | | a chord that contains the center of a circle |
Hypotenuse | | a statement that can be proved |
Circumscribed | | a quadrilateral with four congruent sides |
Adjacent angles | | points all in one plane |
Parallel | | points all in one line |
Semicircle | | the distance from the center of a circle to any of its points |
Midpoint | | a 4-sided polygon |
Straight angle | | a quadrilateral with four right angles |
Similar | | a triangle with one obtuse angle (2 wds) |
Trapezoid | | two lines that intersect to form right angles (2 wds) |
Rectangle | | a 6-sided polygon |
Parallelogram | | the point that divides the segment into two congruent segments |
Leg | | two angles whose sides form two pairs of opposite rays (2 wds) |
Quadrilateral | | a polygon that is both equiangular and equilateral |
Collinear | | a triangle with no sides congruent |
Median | | a segment from the vertex to the midpoint of the opposite side |
Coplanar | | a quadrilateral with four right angles and four congruent sides |
Central angle | | a triangle with one right angle (2 wds) |
Tangent | | lines that are not coplanar |
Regular | | a triangle with all sides congruent |
Polygon | | a line in the plane that intersects a circle in exactly one point |
Congruent segments | | a line that contains a chord |
Exterior angle | | a triangle with three acute angles |
Skew | | in a right triangle the side opposite the right angle |
Congruent triangles | | a figure formed by two rays that have the same endpoint |
Triangle | | a quadrilateral with both pairs of opposite sides parallel |
Obtuse angle | | two angles whose measures have the sum 180 degrees |
Altitude | | a 5-sided polygon |
Bisector | | a plane figure formed by coplanar segments such that (1) each segment intersects exactly two other segments; and (2) no two segments with a common endpoint are collinear |
Proportion | | coplanar lines that do not intersect |
Diagonal | | two angles whose measures have the sum of 90 degrees |
Isosceles | | two triangles with congruent angles and corresponding sides in proportion |
Right triangle | | a line that intersects two or more coplanar lines in different points |
Angle | | a statement that is accepted without proof |