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Keywords: Perpendicular, Polygon, Circumscribed, Midpoint, Regular

Related Terms: Polygon , Cosine, Cotangent, Decagon, Diagonal, Heptagon, Hexagon, Hexagonal, Hypotenuse, Leg, Orthogonal, Pentagon, Perpendicular, Quadrilateral, Rectangle, Rectangular, Rhomboid, Sine, Square, Subtend, Tetragonal, Triangle, Tangent, Dihedral Angle, Equilateral Triangle, Inscribed Angle, Pythagorean Theorem, Regular Tessellation, Regular Polygon, Right Triangle, Rhombus, Right Angle, Vertical Angles, Concave Polygon, Convex Polygon, Adjacent Angles, Alternate Interior Angles, Corresponding Angles, Isosceles Trapezoid, Obtuse Triangle, Scalene Triangle, Central Angle, N-Gon, Perpendicular Bisector, Inscribed Polygon, Altitude Of A Triangle, Median Of A Triangle, Regular Hexagon, Angle Bisector, Cyclic Quadrilateral

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The perpendicular from the center to one of the sides of a regular polygon.

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the perpendicular distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a side

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in a regular polygon, the perpendicular distance from the center to a side; in a circle with a chord, the distance from the midpoint of a chord to the circle's center

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of a regular polygon A perpendicular segment from the center of the polygon' s circumscribed circle to a side of the polygon (Lesson 9.4).

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Perpendicular line from the center of a regular polygon to any one of its sides.

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An apothem of a geometric figure is the perpendicular line segment, usually from the center, to an edge, or the length thereof.

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