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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 (geometry) (redirect from Parallel line)
intersect and keep a fixed minimum distance. In three-dimensional Euclidean space, a line and a plane that do not share a point are also said to be parallel...
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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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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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Parabola (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
which can all be proved to define exactly the same curves. One description of a parabola involves a point (the focus) and a line (the directrix). The focus...
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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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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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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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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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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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Locus (mathematics) (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
which a point may be located or on which it moves. Thus a circle in the Euclidean plane was defined as the locus of a point that is at a given distance of...
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equidistant (i.e. the distance from each point on one line to the other line is always the same.) Triangle area property: The area of a triangle can be as...
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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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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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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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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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Right angle (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
rectus; here rectus means "upright", referring to the vertical perpendicular to a horizontal base line. Closely related and important geometrical concepts...
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Hyperbolic geometry (redirect from Ultraparallel line)
line from that point) to the origin; the y-coordinate is the signed distance from the point to the line, with the sign according to whether the point is...
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