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triangle center (Definition)

On every triangle there are points where special lines or circles intersect, and those points usually have very interesting geometrical properties. Such points are called triangle centers.

Some examples of triangle centers are incenter, orthocenter, centroid, circumcenter, excenters, Feuerbach point, Fermat points, etc.

For an online reference please check the Triangle Centers page.

Here is a drawing showing the most important lines and centers of a triangle

\includegraphics[scale=0.75]{triangulo-rev}
(XEukleides source code for the drawing)



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See Also: orthocenter, centroid, Euler line

Other names:  triangle centre, center, centre
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Cross-references: circumcenter, centroid, orthocenter, incenter, properties, intersect, circles, lines, points, triangle
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This is version 8 of triangle center, born on 2001-11-01, modified 2005-09-24.
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AMS MSC51-00 (Geometry :: General reference works )

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On the drawing by drini on 2002-05-16 00:39:37
I feel like putting the source code to show capabilities of Eukleides. Use it if you like, but remeber you saw it first on PlanetMath.
 f
G -----> H G
p \ /_ ----- ~ f(G)
 \ / f ker f
 G/ker f 
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