constructions vocabulary

Question 1

bisect

Answer 1

the act of dividing something into two equal parts usually with a line or plane

Question 2

equidistant

Answer 2

being the same or equal distance from a point or object

Question 3

inscribed

Answer 3

a shape drawn inside another shape with the inscribed shape touching the outer shapes sides or verticals but not crossing them

Question 4

circumscribed

Answer 4

a shape drawn outside another where the circumscribed shapes boundary touches the inscribed shapes verticals

Question 5

median

Answer 5

a line segment that connects a vertex to the midpoint of the opposite side

Question 6

regular hexagon

Answer 6

a closed two dimensional shape with six equal sides and six equal angles

Question 7

centroid

Answer 7

the center point of an object

Question 8

perpendicular bisector

Answer 8

a line ray or segment that intersects a line segment at its midpoint and forms a right angle with that segment

Question 9

circumcenter

Answer 9

the point where the triangles three perpendicular bisectors intersect

Question 10

circumcircle

Answer 10

a circle that intersects the verticals of a polygon

Question 11

angle bisector

Answer 11

a ray segment or line that divides a given angle into two angles of equal measure

Question 12

incenter

Answer 12

the point where the three interior angle bisectors of a triangle or regular polygon intersect

Question 13

incircle

Answer 13

the largest circle that can be contained in a triangle

Question 14

altitude

Answer 14

a segment drawn from a vertex perpendicular to the line containing the opposite side

Question 15

orthocenter

Answer 15

the point where the three altitudes of a triangle intersect