The distance (or perpendicular distance) from a point to a line is the shortest distance from a fixed point to any point on a fixed infinite line in Euclidean...
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the distance from a point to a plane is the distance between a given point and its orthogonal projection on the plane, the perpendicular distance to the...
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computing distances between different types of objects, such as the distance from a point to a line. In advanced mathematics, the concept of distance has been...
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distance from a point to a line is the distance to the nearest point on that line. That is the point at which a segment from it to the given point is perpendicular...
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distance from the Earth. The same sense of distance is used in Euclidean geometry to define distance from a point to a line, distance from a point to...
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Trilinear coordinates (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
trilinear coordinates x : y : z of a point relative to a given triangle describe the relative directed distances from the three sidelines of the triangle...
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point of the Euclidean plane; or a directrix, whose distance from a point helps to establish whether the point is on the conic. a coordinate line, a linear...
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A distance line, penetration line, cave line, wreck line or guide line is an item of diving equipment used by scuba divers as a means of returning to...
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In Euclidean geometry, the intersection of a line and a line can be the empty set, a point, or another line. Distinguishing these cases and finding the...
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Perpendicular (redirect from Perpendicular line)
distance from a point to a line is the distance to the nearest point on that line. That is the point at which a segment from it to the given point is perpendicular...
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points on a sphere and passing through its center. Given any point on a sphere, its antipodal point is the unique point at greatest distance, whether measured...
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Parallel (geometry) (redirect from Parallel line)
same distance to line l. Property 2: Take a random line through a that intersects l in x. Move point x to infinity. Property 3: Both l and m share a transversal...
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the basket. Every three-point line becomes parallel to each sideline at the points where each arc is a specified distance from the sideline. In both the...
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parallel, the perpendicular distance between them is a constant, so it does not matter which point is chosen to measure the distance. Given the equations of...
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Parabola (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
parabola is the set of the points whose distance to a fixed point, the focus, equals the distance to a fixed line, the directrix. That is, if F {\displaystyle...
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Spherical coordinate system (category Use American English from March 2019)
the radial distance r along the line connecting the point to a fixed point called the origin; the polar angle θ between this radial line and a given polar...
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Hesse normal form (section Distance to a line)
^{3}} , or a hyperplane in higher dimensions. It is primarily used for calculating distances (see point-plane distance and point-line distance). It is written...
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Pole of inaccessibility (redirect from Farthest point from the sea)
on the Arctic Ocean pack ice at a distance farthest from any landmass. The original position was wrongly believed to lie at 84°3′N 174°51′W. It is not...
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Tangent (redirect from Point of tangency)
tangent line (or simply tangent) to a plane curve at a given point is, intuitively, the straight line that "just touches" the curve at that point. Leibniz...
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Method of image charges (category Articles to be expanded from September 2013)
image of an electric point dipole is a bit more complicated. If the dipole is pictured as two large charges separated by a small distance, then the image of...
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Basketball court (redirect from 3 point line)
on the three-point line that are directly to the left and right of the basket center. The NCAA three-point line is the same distance from the center of...
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The Mahalanobis distance is a measure of the distance between a point P {\displaystyle P} and a probability distribution D {\displaystyle D} , introduced...
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Circle (redirect from Equation of a circle)
A circle is a shape consisting of all points in a plane that are at a given distance from a given point, the centre. The distance between any point of...
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Proximity problems (redirect from Closest point problem)
geometry. Distance between a pair of line segments. It cannot be expressed by a single formula, unlike, e.g., the distance from a point to a line. Its calculation...
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elementary plane geometry, the power of a point is a real number that reflects the relative distance of a given point from a given circle. It was introduced by...
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Flat (geometry) (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
example Distance from a point to a plane and Distance from a point to a line.) There is the distance between two flats, equal to 0 if they intersect. (See...
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Equidistant (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A point is said to be equidistant from a set of objects if the distances between that point and each object in the set are...
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coming from Euclidean distance in the Poincaré disk model with one point at the origin, analogous to finding arclength on the sphere by taking a stereographic...
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as chessboard distance, since in the game of chess the minimum number of moves needed by a king to go from one square on a chessboard to another equals...
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