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What is a segment, ray, line, or plane that is perpendicular to a segment at its midpoint called?
perpendicular bisector
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What is it called when three or more lines, rays, or segments intersect in the same point?
concurrent
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What is an object that is self-similar?
fractal
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What is the perpendicular segment from a vertex to the opposite side or to the line that contains the opposite side?
altitude of a triangle
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What is a transformation that preserves angle measure and results in an image with lengths proportional to the preimage length?
dilation
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What is the point at which the lines containing the three altitudes of a triangle intersect called?
orthocenter
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If two polygons are similar, then the ratio of the lengths of two corresponding side is called . . . ?
scale factor
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What is parallel to side opposite it and half the length of the opposite side of it?
midsegment
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