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Definition of Orthocenter
1. n. 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.
Definition of Orthocenter
1. Noun. (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. ¹
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Definition of Orthocenter
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Orthocenter
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Literary usage of Orthocenter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Original Exercises in Plane and Solid Geometry by Levi Leonard Conant (1905)
"ABC is an inscribed triangle, 0 its orthocenter, and AKa diameter; ... The line
joining the orthocenter of an inscribed triangle to the middle point of the ..."
2. Plane and Solid Geometry by Seth Thayer Stewart (1891)
"Each center of the inscribed or the escribed circles is the orthocenter of the
triangle, having the other three centers as its vertices. ..."
3. Plane Geometry: I. Abridged and Applied. II. College Preparatory by Matilda Auerbach, Charles Burton Walsh (1920)
"Each center of the inscribed or the escribed circles is the orthocenter of the
triangle having the other three centers as its vertices. d!580. ..."
4. Plane Geometry by John Charles Stone, James Franklin Millis (1916)
"Show that AGBO is a parallelogram, and hence that AF = FB. 10. If D is the
orthocenter of A ABC, prove that A is the orthocenter of A BCD, ..."
5. Projective Geometry by Linnaeus Wayland Dowling (1917)
"This point is called the orthocenter of the triangle. 7. Prove that all conies
which pass through the vertices and the orthocenter of a triangle are ..."
6. Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington by Philosophical Society of Washington (1874)
"... to the orthocenter, and are points of bisection, in the ordinary and extended
... C and C" are measured from the orthocenter j °^ ar from the vertices. ..."
7. Elementary Synthetic Geometry by George Bruce Halsted (1892)
"Corollary I. The altitudes of a spherical triangle are concurrent in a point
called its orthocenter. For, regarding A'B'C' as the triangle, ..."
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