Geometry Vocabulary
All definitions can be found in the glossary of the Holt McDougal Mathematics Course 3 textbook
transformation | image | translation | reflection |
rotation | similar figures | corresponding | dilation |
scale factor | line of symmetry | rotational symmetry | acute angle |
right angle | obtuse angle | straight angle | complementary angles |
supplementary angles | adjacent angles | vertical angles | congruent angles |
parallel lines | perpendicular lines | transversal | alternate interior angles |
alternate exterior angles | corresponding angles | Triangle Sum Theorem | acute triangle |
right triangle | obtuse angle | equilateral triangle | scalene triangle |
isosceles triangle | Triangle Inequality Theorem | polygon | regular polygon |
square | rectangle | rhombus | parallelogram |
trapezoid | quadrilaterals | hexagon | heptagon |
octagon | nonagon | decagon | coordinate plane |
x-axis | y-axis | origin | x-coordinate |
y-coordinate | quadrant | Pythagorean Theorem | hypotenuse |
leg | Distance Formula | midpoint | midpoint formula |
correspondence | congruent figures |