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Line DE bisects line AB at D, line EF is a perpendicular bisector of segment AD at C, and line EF is the interior bisector of right angle AED. In geometry, bisection is the division of something into two equal or congruent parts (having the same shape and size). Usually it involves a bisecting line, also called a bisector.
The angle bisector theorem states that the ratio of the length of the line segment BD to the length of segment CD is equal to the ratio of the length of side AB to the length of side AC: and conversely, if a point D on the side BC of ABC divides BC in the same ratio as the sides AB and AC, then AD is the angle bisector of angle ∠ A.
Cevian. In geometry, a cevian is a line segment which joins a vertex of a triangle to a point on the opposite side of the triangle. [1][2] Medians and angle bisectors are special cases of cevians. The name "cevian" comes from the Italian mathematician Giovanni Ceva, who proved a well-known theorem about cevians which also bears his name.
A line that is an angle bisector is equidistant from both of its lines when measuring by the perpendicular. At the point where two bisectors intersect, this point is perpendicularly equidistant from the final angle's forming lines (because they are the same distance from this angles opposite edge), and therefore lies on its angle bisector line.
Symmedian. In geometry, symmedians are three particular lines associated with every triangle. They are constructed by taking a median of the triangle (a line connecting a vertex with the midpoint of the opposite side), and reflecting the line over the corresponding angle bisector (the line through the same vertex that divides the angle there in ...
Concurrent lines. In geometry, lines in a plane or higher-dimensional space are concurrent if they intersect at a single point. The set of all lines through a point is called a pencil, and their common intersection is called the vertex of the pencil. In any affine space (including a Euclidean space) the set of lines parallel to a given line ...
In geometry, a median of a triangle is a line segment joining a vertex to the midpoint of the opposite side, thus bisecting that side. Every triangle has exactly three medians, one from each vertex, and they all intersect at the triangle's centroid. In the case of isosceles and equilateral triangles, a median bisects any angle at a vertex whose ...
the perpendicular bisector of the base within the triangle, [14] the segment within the triangle of the unique axis of symmetry of the triangle, and [14] the segment within the triangle of the Euler line of the triangle, except when the triangle is equilateral. [15] Their common length is the height of the triangle.