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  2. Line (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    The word line may also refer, in everyday life, to a line segment, which is a part of a line delimited by two points (its endpoints). Euclid's Elements defines a straight line as a "breadthless length" that "lies evenly with respect to the points on itself", and introduced several postulates as basic unprovable properties on which the rest of ...

  3. Line segment - Wikipedia

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    Analogous to straight line segments above, one can also define arcs as segments of a curve. In one-dimensional space, a ball is a line segment. An oriented plane segment or bivector generalizes the directed line segment. Beyond Euclidean geometry, geodesic segments play the role of line segments.

  4. Arrangement of lines - Wikipedia

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    In geometry, an arrangement of lines is the subdivision of the Euclidean plane formed by a finite set of lines. An arrangement consists of bounded and unbounded convex polygons, the cells of the arrangement, line segments and rays, the edges of the arrangement, and points where two or more lines cross, the vertices of the arrangement.

  5. Vertex (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    A vertex of an angle is the endpoint where two lines or rays come together. In geometry, a vertex (pl.: vertices or vertexes) is a point where two or more curves, lines, or edges meet or intersect. As a consequence of this definition, the point where two lines meet to form an angle and the corners of polygons and polyhedra are vertices. [1] [2] [3]

  6. List of two-dimensional geometric shapes - Wikipedia

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    1 Generally composed of straight line segments. Toggle Generally composed of straight line segments subsection. 1.1 Polygons with specific numbers of sides. 2 Curved.

  7. Direction (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    Three line segments with the same direction. In geometry, direction, also known as spatial direction or vector direction, is the common characteristic of all rays which coincide when translated to share a common endpoint; equivalently, it is the common characteristic of vectors (such as the relative position between a pair of points) which can be made equal by scaling (by some positive scalar ...

  8. Intersection (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    Intersection of two line segments. For two non-parallel line segments (,), (,) and (,), (,) there is not necessarily an intersection point (see diagram), because the intersection point (,) of the corresponding lines need not to be contained in the line segments. In order to check the situation one uses parametric representations of the lines:

  9. Euclidean geometry - Wikipedia

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    Modern school textbooks often define separate figures called lines (infinite), rays (semi-infinite), and line segments (of finite length). Euclid, rather than discussing a ray as an object that extends to infinity in one direction, would normally use locutions such as "if the line is extended to a sufficient length", although he occasionally ...