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What is the geometry term for a line touching a circle?
Tangent
In Geometry what is the term for a line touching the circle?
tangent
What is tangent to a circle?
"Tangent" to a circle means touching the circle at one point, and only one point. Think of a skinny bicycle wheel standing on the ground. The ground is 'tangent' to the wheel.
A line touching a circle at one point?
A tangent line.
What is a secant. a tangent?
Secants are chords that go through a circle ONCE! Tangents are rays or segments with one point touching the border of a circle and nothing else.
Line touching a circle?
Is a tangent
Line touching the circumference of a circle?
A tangent
What is the geometry term for a line touching a circle?
Tangent
In Geometry what is the term for a line touching the circle?
tangent
A line that intersects a circle at exactly one point?
Such a line is called a tangent line or a tangent to the circle. [Tangent is Latin for touching-- a tangent line touches the circle at just one point. ]
What is tangent to a circle?
"Tangent" to a circle means touching the circle at one point, and only one point. Think of a skinny bicycle wheel standing on the ground. The ground is 'tangent' to the wheel.
A line touching a circle at one point?
A tangent line.
What is a straight line that just touches a circle in one place called?
a tangent
What is a secant. a tangent?
Secants are chords that go through a circle ONCE! Tangents are rays or segments with one point touching the border of a circle and nothing else.
Is the circle or straight line on?
A straight line touching the circumference of circle at one point is a tangent
A secant tangent passes through the center of a circle?
Neither secant nor tangent pass through the center of a circle. A secant passes through one point on the circle and the tangent passes through two points on a circle.
Does a secant tangent angle pass through the center of the circle?
Neither secant nor tangent pass through the center of a circle. A secant passes through one point on the circle and the tangent passes through two points on a circle.
