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  1. counterexample
    refutation by example
  2. inductive reasoning
    reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
  3. deductive reasoning
    reasoning from the general to the particular
  4. conjecture
    believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
  5. collinear
    lying on the same line
  6. endpoint
    a place where something ends or is complete
  7. coplanar
    lying in the same plane
  8. intersection
    the act of meeting at a point
  9. intersection point
    a point where lines intersect
  10. intersect
    meet or cross at a point; overlap
  11. initial
    occurring at the beginning
  12. postulate
    maintain or assert
  13. length
    the linear extent in space from one end to the other
  14. coordinate
    of equal importance, rank, or degree
  15. distance
    the property created by the space between two objects
  16. between
    in the interval
  17. congruent
    corresponding in character or kind
  18. vertex
    the highest point of something
  19. obtuse angle
    an angle between 90 and 180 degrees
  20. acute angle
    an angle less than 90 degrees but more than 0 degrees
  21. straight angle
    an angle of 180 degrees
  22. right angle
    the 90 degree angle between two perpendicular lines
  23. interior angle
    the angle inside two adjacent sides of a polygon
  24. exterior angle
    the supplement of an interior angle of a polygon
  25. protractor
    drafting instrument used to draw or measure angles
  26. adjacent
    having a common boundary or edge
  27. midpoint
    a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure
  28. Euclid's postulate
    (mathematics) any of five axioms that are generally recognized as the basis for Euclidean geometry
  29. angulation
    the precise measurement of angles
  30. bisect
    cut in half or cut in two
  31. bisection
    dividing into two equal parts
  32. compass
    navigational instrument for finding directions
  33. straightedge
    hand tool consisting of a flat rigid rectangular bar (metal or wood) that can be used to draw straight lines (or test their straightness)
  34. hypothesis
    a tentative insight that is not yet verified or tested
  35. complementary angles
    two angles whose sum is a right angle
  36. supplementary
    functioning in a supporting capacity
  37. complacent
    contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions
  38. vertical angle
    either of two equal and opposite angles formed by the intersection of two straight lines
  39. midpoint
    a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure
  40. point
    a distinguishing or individuating characteristic
  41. line
    a length between two points
  42. plane
    an unbounded two-dimensional shape
  43. ray
    a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation
  44. perpendicularly
    in a perpendicular manner
  45. substitution
    putting one thing or person in the place of another
  46. transitive
    designating a verb that requires a direct object
  47. symmetric
    having similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts
  48. reflexive
    referring back to itself
  49. commutative
    independent of order; as in e.g. "a x b = b x a"
  50. distributive
    serving to allot or disperse
  51. division
    the act of partitioning
  52. multiplication
    arithmetic operation determining the product of two numbers
  53. subtraction
    arithmetic operation of deducting one quantity from another
  54. addition
    the arithmetic operation of summing
Created on Sun Oct 21 21:49:03 EDT 2012 (updated Sun Oct 21 22:17:15 EDT 2012)

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