excircle

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An escribed circle; a circle outside a polygon (especially a triangle, but also sometimes a quadrilateral) that is tangent to each of the lines on which the sides of the polygon lie.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-excircle.wav

Word forms

excircle excircles

Etymology

From ex- + circle.

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