Unit 5 Vocab

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What is an angle bisector?

Back

A line that cuts an angle in half.

Front

What is a circumcenter?

Back

The point of concurrency of the perpendicular bisectors of a triangle.

Front

What does the Circumcenter Theorem state?

Back

It states that the circumcenter is equidistant to the vertices of a triangle.

Front

What is an incenter?

Back

The point of concurrency of angle bisectors of a triangle.

Front

What does the Incenter Theorem state?

Back

It states that the incenter is equidistant to the sides of the triangle.

Front

What is a median in a triangle?

Back

A segment with endpoints being a vertex and the midpoint of the opposite side length.

Front

What is a centroid?

Back

The point of concurrency of all the medians of the triangle.

Front

What does the Centroid Theorem state?

Back

The distance from the vertex to the centroid is 2/3 the distance of the whole length.

Front

What is an altitude in a triangle?

Back

A segment from the vertex going to the opposite side length and is also perpendicular.

Front

What is an orthocenter?

Back

The point of concurrency of the altitudes of a triangle.