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You can have a tangent line for every point on a circle, so the answer is theoretically infinite.
A secant line touches a circle at two points. On the other hand a tangent line meets a circle at one point.
In geometry, the incircle or inscribed circle of a triangle is the largest circle contained in the triangle; it touches (is tangent to) the three sides.The center of the incircle is called the triangle's incenter.The center of the incircle can be found as the intersection of the three internal angle bisectors.You draw three lines. Each line from one triangle head point to the opposite triangle side and bisecting the angle. These three lines will intersect in one point which is the circle center.
Often circles lines points et cetera are named.In this answer I call the circle C, the Tangent T, the point P, the center of the circle OThey are called just what your question asked:"The tangent to circle C through point P is T"P may not be inside C but may be on CIf P is outside C there are twotangents T1 and T2If P is on C there is one tangent TT is perpendicular to the radius at the point of tangency
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You can have a tangent line for every point on a circle, so the answer is theoretically infinite.
Two lines tangent to a circle at the endpoints of its diameter are parallel. See related link for proof.
Infinite lines because a circle has infinite lines of symmetry.
A secant line touches a circle at two points. On the other hand a tangent line meets a circle at one point.
In geometry, the incircle or inscribed circle of a triangle is the largest circle contained in the triangle; it touches (is tangent to) the three sides.The center of the incircle is called the triangle's incenter.The center of the incircle can be found as the intersection of the three internal angle bisectors.You draw three lines. Each line from one triangle head point to the opposite triangle side and bisecting the angle. These three lines will intersect in one point which is the circle center.
Often circles lines points et cetera are named.In this answer I call the circle C, the Tangent T, the point P, the center of the circle OThey are called just what your question asked:"The tangent to circle C through point P is T"P may not be inside C but may be on CIf P is outside C there are twotangents T1 and T2If P is on C there is one tangent TT is perpendicular to the radius at the point of tangency
... touches each circle in exactly one point on each circle. given any two circles where none is entirely inside or inside and tangent to the other, there are at most four straight lines that are tangent to both circles.
A circle has an infinite number of lines of symmetry. Any chord of the circle that passes through its center will be line of symmetry. And there are an infinite number of lines that can be drawn through the center of the circle.
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A circle has an infinite number of lines of symmetry. Any chord of the circle that passes through its center will be a line of symmetry. And there are an infinite number of lines that can be drawn through the center of the circle, the length of which is equal to the diameter of the circle.
It's possible for any number of intersecting lines to all be tangent to the same circle. Think of a dinner plate sitting in a pizza box that just exactly fits it. Looking straight down from above, it looks like a circle inside a square. All four sides of the square are tangent to the circle.
A circle has an infinite number of lines of symmetry. The circle is symmetricalacross any line that passes through its center.