• Thumbnail for Altitude (triangle)
    In geometry, an altitude of a triangle is a line segment through a given vertex (called apex) and perpendicular to a line containing the side or edge opposite...
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    if the circumcenter is located outside the triangle, then the triangle is obtuse. An altitude of a triangle is a straight line through a vertex and perpendicular...
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    geometry, the right triangle altitude theorem or geometric mean theorem is a relation between the altitude on the hypotenuse in a right triangle and the two line...
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    A right triangle or right-angled triangle, sometimes called an orthogonal triangle or rectangular triangle, is a triangle in which two sides are perpendicular...
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    Orthocenter (redirect from Orthic triangle)
    of a triangle, usually denoted by H, is the point where the three (possibly extended) altitudes intersect. The orthocenter lies inside the triangle if and...
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    derived from the formula of an isosceles triangle by Pythagoras theorem: the altitude h {\displaystyle h} of a triangle is the square root of the difference...
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    point of the triangle's three altitudes, each of which perpendicularly connects a side to the opposite vertex. In the case of an acute triangle, all three...
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    triangle and forming the altitude of the triangle. Two small constellations, Sagitta and Vulpecula, lie between Aquila in the south of the triangle and...
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    that the altitude bisects the base and partitions the isosceles triangle into two congruent right triangles. The Euler line of any triangle goes through...
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  • T=bh/2,} where b is the length of the base of the triangle, and h is the height or altitude of the triangle. The term "base" denotes any side, and "height"...
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    Heron's formula (category Theorems about triangles)
    }}={\frac {\sqrt {4a^{2}b^{2}-(a^{2}+b^{2}-c^{2})^{2}}}{2ab}}.} The altitude of the triangle on base ⁠ a {\displaystyle a} ⁠ has length ⁠ b sin ⁡ γ {\displaystyle...
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    triangles have bases of equal length and share a common altitude from the (extended) base, and a triangle's area equals one-half its base times its height. We...
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    triangle ABC with side length 2 and with point M as the midpoint of segment BC. Draw an altitude line from A to M. Then ABM is a 30°–60°–90° triangle...
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    In mathematics, the triangle inequality states that for any triangle, the sum of the lengths of any two sides must be greater than or equal to the length...
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    incircle is a triangle center called the triangle's incenter. An excircle or escribed circle of the triangle is a circle lying outside the triangle, tangent...
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  • coordinate system Altitude (triangle), in geometry, a line passing through one vertex of a triangle and perpendicular to the opposite side Altitude (ALT album)...
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    Base (geometry) (category Parts of a triangle)
    then the altitude dropped perpendicularly from the apex to the base intersects the extended base outside of the triangle. The area of a triangle is its...
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  • Heronian triangle (or Heron triangle) is a triangle whose side lengths a, b, and c and area A are all positive integers. Heronian triangles are named...
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  • the geometric shape. Triangle Acute and obtuse triangles Altitude (triangle) Area bisector of a triangle Angle bisector of a triangle Angle bisector theorem...
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    parts d and e. The new triangle, ACH, is similar to triangle ABC, because they both have a right angle (by definition of the altitude), and they share the...
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    Viviani's theorem (category Theorems about equilateral triangles)
    any interior point to the sides of an equilateral triangle equals the length of the triangle's altitude. It is a theorem commonly employed in various math...
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    Angle bisector theorem (category Theorems about triangles)
    not an altitude of triangle △ABC. Let B1 be the base (foot) of the altitude in the triangle △ABD through B and let C1 be the base of the altitude in the...
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    Nine-point circle (category Circles defined for a triangle)
    the triangle The foot of each altitude The midpoint of the line segment from each vertex of the triangle to the orthocenter (where the three altitudes meet;...
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  • trigonometric functions of those angles, the area of the triangle, the medians of the sides, the altitudes, the lengths of the internal angle bisectors from...
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  • Black triangles are UFOs reported as having a triangular shape and dark color, typically observed at night, described as large, silent, hovering, moving...
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  • Thumbnail for Triangle center
    In geometry, a triangle center or triangle centre is a point in the triangle's plane that is in some sense in the middle of the triangle. For example,...
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    the orthic triangle (whose vertices are at the feet of the altitudes of the reference triangle).: p. 447 : p. 102  The tangential triangle is homothetic...
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    triangles). Corresponding altitudes of similar triangles have the same ratio as the corresponding sides. Two right triangles are similar if the hypotenuse...
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    Polar circle (geometry) (category Circles defined for a triangle)
    denote both the triangle's vertices and the angle measures at those vertices; H is the orthocenter (the intersection of the triangle's altitudes); D, E, F are...
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    definitions. These include: The height or altitude of a triangle, which is the length from a vertex of a triangle to the line formed by the opposite side;...
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