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geometry > geometric drawing > triangle center
geometry > geometric figure > point > center > triangle center
geometry > Euclidean geometry > point > center > triangle center

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triangle center  

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  • In geometry, a triangle center or triangle centre is a point in the triangle's plane that is in some sense in the middle of the triangle. For example, the centroid, circumcenter, incenter and orthocenter were familiar to the ancient Greeks, and can be obtained by simple constructions. Each of these classical centers has the property that it is invariant (more precisely equivariant) under similarity transformations. In other words, for any triangle and any similarity transformation (such as a rotation, reflection, dilation, or translation), the center of the transformed triangle is the same point as the transformed center of the original triangle. This invariance is the defining property of a triangle center. It rules out other well-known points such as the Brocard points which are not invariant under reflection and so fail to qualify as triangle centers.
    (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_center)

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