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[[Image:Right angle (geometry) definition.png|frame|Diagram showing the definition of a right angle. The green parts are not part of the construction but show that the angles are both 90 degrees and equal to one another]] | [[Image:Right angle (geometry) definition.png|frame|Diagram showing the definition of a right angle. The green parts are not part of the construction but show that the angles are both 90 degrees and equal to one another]] | ||
In [[Euclidean geometry]] | In [[Euclidean geometry]], a '''right angle''', symbolised by the L-shaped figure '''∟''', is created when two straight lines meet perpendicularly at 90 degrees to each other. | ||
The right angle bisects the angle of the line into two equal parts. | The right angle bisects the angle of the line into two equal parts. | ||
Revision as of 17:29, 15 August 2008
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Diagram showing the definition of a right angle. The green parts are not part of the construction but show that the angles are both 90 degrees and equal to one another
In Euclidean geometry, a right angle, symbolised by the L-shaped figure ∟, is created when two straight lines meet perpendicularly at 90 degrees to each other.
The right angle bisects the angle of the line into two equal parts.
The right angle is demonstrated:
- Given a line DC with point B lying on it
- Take B as the vertex of angle ABC
- If the angle ABC equals the angle ABD
- then angle ABC is a right angle,
- and so is angle ABD