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Webster 1913 Edition
Orthocenter
Orˊtho-cen′ter
,Noun.
[
Ortho-
+ center
.] (Geom.)
That point in which the three perpendiculars let fall from the angles of a triangle upon the opposite sides, or the sides produced, mutually intersect.
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orthocenter
orthocenter
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- (UK) orthocentre
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The orthocenter of an acute triangle.
orthocenter (plural orthocenters)
- (geometry): the intersection of the three lines that can be drawn flowing from the three corners of a triangle to a point along the opposite side where each line intersects that side at a 90 degree angle; in an acute triangle, it is inside the triangle; in an obtuse triangle, it is outside the triangle.
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