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Center

A special Point which usually has some symmetric placement with respect to points on a curve or in a Solid. The center of a Circle is equidistant from all points on the Circle and is the intersection of any two distinct Diameters. The same holds true for the center of a Sphere.

See also Center (Group), Center of Mass, Circumcenter, Curvature Center, Ellipse, Equi-Brocard Center, Excenter, Homothetic Center, Incenter, Inversion Center, Isogonic Centers, Major Triangle Center, Nine-Point Center, Orthocenter, Perspective Center, Point, Radical Center, Similitude Center, Sphere, Spieker Center, Taylor Center, Triangle Center, Triangle Center Function, Yff Center of Congruence




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1999-05-26