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morphew chapter 10
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10th Grade
04/02/2009

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Altitude
Definition
The perpendicular segment connecting either two parallel lines or a vertex to its opposite side
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Apothem
Definition
A segment that is drawn from the center of a regular polygon perpendicular to a side of the polygon
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Area
Definition
The number of square units contained in the interior of a figure
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Base
Definition
This is any side of a parallelogram. In a trapezoid, it is either of the parallel sides. In a triangle, it is the side the altitue is drawn to.
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Concave
Definition
A polygon for which there is a line containing a side of the polygon and a point in the interior of the polygon
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Convex
Definition
A polygon for which there is no line that contains both a side of the polygon and a point in the interior of the polygon
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Height
Definition
The length of the altitude of a figure
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n-gon
Definition
a polygon with n sides
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Polygon
Definition
A figure in a plane that meets the following conditions: It is a closed figure formed by three or more coplanar segments, sides that have a common endpoint are noncollinear and each side intersects exactly two other sides but only at their endpoints.
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Regular
Definition
This is what a polygon is called when all angles are congruent and all sides are congruent
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