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circle properties Cheat Sheet (DRAFT) by

all the circle properties you ever needed

This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.

Defini­tions

Tangent
a straight line that touches but does not cut into a curve
Perpen­dicular bisector
a line segment which bisects another line segment at 90 degrees into 2 equal parts
Chord
a straight line segment whose endpoints both lie on the circum­ference of the circle
Equidi­stant
at equal distances
Subtend
To take up the side opposite of an angle or an arc
Arc
A smooth curve joining two endpoints
Cyclic Quadri­lateral
a quadri­lateral which has all its four vertices lying on a circle
Segment
a region of a disk which is "cut off" from the rest of the disk by a chord
Alternate Segment
The segment which is located on the opposite side of the segment that is made by that particular chord and the arc
 

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