Definition of Apothems

1. Noun. (plural of apothem) ¹

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Definition of Apothems

1. apothem [n] - See also: apothem

Lexicographical Neighbors of Apothems

apotheces
apothecia
apothecial
apothecium
apothegm
apothegmatic
apothegmatical
apothegmatist
apothegmatists
apothegmatize
apothegmatized
apothegmatizes
apothegmatizing
apothegms
apothem
apothems (current term)
apotheon
apotheons
apotheose
apotheoses
apotheosis
apotheosise
apotheosised
apotheosises
apotheosising
apotheosize
apotheosized
apotheosizes
apotheosizing
apotome

Literary usage of Apothems

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Manual of Geometry and Conic Sections: With Applications to Trigonometry and by William Guy Peck (1876)
"The perimeters of two regular polygons having the same number of sides are to each other as their apothems, and their areas are to each other as the squares ..."

2. Plane and Solid Geometry by William James Milne (1899)
"With the ratio of the apothems? Since the polygons are similar, ... Of their apothems? Theorem. The perimeters of regular polygons of the same number of ..."

3. Plane and Solid Geometry by William James Milne (1899)
"With the ratio of the apothems? Since the polygons are similar, ... Of their apothems ? Theorem. The perimeters of regular polygons of the same number of ..."

4. Elementary Geometry, Plane and Solid: For Use in High Schools and Academies by Thomas Franklin Holgate (1901)
"The perimeters of two regular polygons of the same number of sides are in the same ratio as their radii, or as their apothems. Let Si and ,Sa be the lengths ..."

5. Plane Geometry by Edith Long, William Charles Brenke (1916)
"apothems. Theorem VI. In a regular polygon the bisectors of the angles meet in a point equidistant from the sides, and the perpendicular bisectors of the ..."

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