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The diagonals of a cube with side length 1. AC' (shown in blue) is a space diagonal with length , while AC (shown in red) is a face diagonal and has length . In geometry, a diagonal is a line segment joining two vertices of a polygon or polyhedron, when those vertices are not on the same edge. Informally, any sloping line is called diagonal.
An axial diagonal is a space diagonal that passes through the center of a polyhedron. For example, in a cube with edge length a , all four space diagonals are axial diagonals, of common length a 3 . {\displaystyle a{\sqrt {3}}.}
AC (shown in red) is a face diagonal while AC' (shown in blue) is a space diagonal. In geometry, a face diagonal of a polyhedron is a diagonal on one of the faces, in contrast to a space diagonal passing through the interior of the polyhedron. [1] A cuboid has twelve face diagonals (two on each of the six faces), and it has four space diagonals ...
The diagonals bisect each other. One pair of opposite sides is parallel and equal in length. Adjacent angles are supplementary. Each diagonal divides the quadrilateral into two congruent triangles. The sum of the squares of the sides equals the sum of the squares of the diagonals.
The diagonals divide the polygon into 1, 4, 11, 24, ... pieces. [ a ] For a regular n -gon inscribed in a circle of radius 1 {\displaystyle 1} , the product of the distances from a given vertex to all other vertices (including adjacent vertices and vertices connected by a diagonal) equals n .
The diagonals of an isosceles trapezoid have the same length; that is, every isosceles trapezoid is an equidiagonal quadrilateral. Moreover, the diagonals divide each other in the same proportions. As pictured, the diagonals AC and BD have the same length (AC = BD) and divide each other into segments of the same length (AE = DE and BE = CE).
The regular octagon, in terms of the side length a, has three different types of diagonals: Short diagonal; Medium diagonal (also called span or height), which is twice the length of the inradius; Long diagonal, which is twice the length of the circumradius. The formula for each of them follows from the basic principles of geometry.
The diagonals of a rhombus intersect at equal angles, while the diagonals of a rectangle are equal in length. The figure formed by joining the midpoints of the sides of a rhombus is a rectangle , and vice versa.