Geometry Ch. 5 Vocab Review

A segment connecting the midpoints of two sides of a triangle.

When a point is the same distance from two objects, what is it?

When three or more lines intersect at one point

• Concurrent

• Point of concurrency

• Circumscribed about

• Circumcenter

The point at which three or more lines intersect

Drawing a figure around a triangle in such a way that the drawn figure touches the outer line or points of the triangle without intersecting it

• Circumscribed about

• Inscribed in

To draw on the inside of a triangle, just touching but never crossing the sides of that triangle

• Inscribed in

• Circumscribed about

The length of the perpendicular segment from the point to the line

The perpendicular segment from a vertex of the triangle to the line containing the opposite side

• Median

• Altitude

A segment whose endpoints are a vertex and the midpoint of the opposite side

• Altitude

• Median

What is point G

• Circumcenter

• Incenter

• Orthocenter

• Centroid