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The elements of a polytope can be considered according to either their own dimensionality or how many dimensions "down" they are from the body.
An equivalent condition is that opposite sides are parallel (a square is a parallelogram), and that the diagonals perpendicularly bisect each other and are of equal length. A quadrilateral is a square if and only if it is both a rhombus and a rectangle (i.e., four equal sides and four equal angles).
The centers of four squares all constructed either internally or externally on the sides of a parallelogram are the vertices of a square. [8] If two lines parallel to sides of a parallelogram are constructed concurrent to a diagonal, then the parallelograms formed on opposite sides of that diagonal are equal in area. [8]
The parallel sides are called the bases of the trapezoid. The other two sides are called the legs (or the lateral sides) if they are not parallel; otherwise, the trapezoid is a parallelogram, and there are two pairs of bases. A scalene trapezoid is a trapezoid with no sides of equal measure, [4] in contrast with the special cases below.
This is a list of two-dimensional geometric shapes in Euclidean and other geometries. ... Digon – 2 sides; Triangle – 3 sides ... Square (regular quadrilateral)
The rhombus has a square as a special case, and is a special case of a kite and parallelogram. In plane Euclidean geometry, a rhombus (pl.: rhombi or rhombuses) is a quadrilateral whose four sides all have the same length. Another name is equilateral quadrilateral, since equilateral means
All four sides of a square are equal. [7] Opposite sides of a square are parallel. [8] All squares are similar to each-other, meaning they have the same shape, [9] and one parameter (typically the length of a side or diagonal) [10] suffices to specify a square's size; squares of the same size are congruent. [11]
The missing square puzzle is an optical illusion used in mathematics classes to help students reason about geometrical figures; or rather to teach them not to reason using figures, but to use only textual descriptions and the axioms of geometry. It depicts two arrangements made of similar shapes in slightly different configurations.