Geometry Honors Chapter 1

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Point
Indicates a location and has no size
Line
A striaght path that extends in two opposite directions without an end and has no thickness. Contains infinetly many points.
Plane
A flat surface that extends without an end and has no thickness. Contains infinetly many lines.
Collinear Points
Points that lie on the same line.
Coplanar
Points and lines that lie in the same plane.
Space
Set of all points in three dimensions.
Segment
Part of a line that has two endpoints and all the points between them.
Ray
Part of a line that consists of one endpoint and all the points of the line on one side of the endpoint.
Opposite Rays
Two rays that share the same endpoint and form a line.
Postulate/Axiom
Accepted statement of fact.
Intersection
The set of points that figures have in common.
Coordinate
The real number that corresponds to a point is the coordinate of the point.
Distance Between Two Points
The distance between two points on a line is the absolute value of the differnce of the corrdinates of the points.
Congruent Segments
If two segments have the same length.
Midpoint of a Segment
A point that divides the segment into two congruent segments.