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  2. Isosceles triangle - Wikipedia

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    convex, cyclic. Dual polygon. Self-dual. In geometry, an isosceles triangle (/ aɪˈsɒsəliːz /) is a triangle that has two sides of equal length. Sometimes it is specified as having exactly two sides of equal length, and sometimes as having at least two sides of equal length, the latter version thus including the equilateral triangle as a ...

  3. Congruence (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    Congruence permits alteration of some properties, such as location and orientation, but leaves others unchanged, like distances and angles. The unchanged properties are called invariants. In geometry, two figures or objects are congruent if they have the same shape and size, or if one has the same shape and size as the mirror image of the other.

  4. Triangle - Wikipedia

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    A triangle is a polygon with three corners and three sides, one of the basic shapes in geometry. The corners, also called vertices, are zero- dimensional points while the sides connecting them, also called edges, are one-dimensional line segments. A triangle has three internal angles, each one bounded by a pair of adjacent edges; the sum of ...

  5. Equilateral triangle - Wikipedia

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    Equilateral triangle. An equilateral triangle is a triangle in which all three sides have the same length, and three angles are equal. Because of these properties, the equilateral triangle is the family of regular polygon, and it is occasionally known as the regular triangle. It is the special case of an isosceles triangle by modern definition ...

  6. Pythagorean theorem - Wikipedia

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    A Pythagorean triple has three positive integers a, b, and c, such that a 2 + b 2 = c 2. In other words, a Pythagorean triple represents the lengths of the sides of a right triangle where all three sides have integer lengths. [1] Such a triple is commonly written (a, b, c). Some well-known examples are (3, 4, 5) and (5, 12, 13).

  7. Altitude (triangle) - Wikipedia

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    The extended sides of the orthic triangle meet the opposite extended sides of its reference triangle at three collinear points. [22] [23] [21] In any acute triangle, the inscribed triangle with the smallest perimeter is the orthic triangle. [24] This is the solution to Fagnano's problem, posed in 1775. [25]

  8. Similarity (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    It can be shown that two triangles having congruent angles (equiangular triangles) are similar, that is, the corresponding sides can be proved to be proportional. This is known as the AAA similarity theorem. [2] Note that the "AAA" is a mnemonic: each one of the three A's refers to an "angle".

  9. Isometry - Wikipedia

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    Translation T is a direct isometry: a rigid motion. [1] In mathematics, an isometry (or congruence, or congruent transformation) is a distance -preserving transformation between metric spaces, usually assumed to be bijective. [a] The word isometry is derived from the Ancient Greek: ἴσος isos meaning "equal", and μέτρον metron meaning ...