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6th grade math vocabulary - chapter 8

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perimeterthe distance around the outside of a figure
paralleltwo lines that are in the same plane but do not intersect
polygona closed figure in a plane, made of line segments that intersect only at their endpoints
trapezoida quadrilateral with exactly two sides parallel
parallelograma four-sided figure whose opposite sides are parallel and of the same length
isosceles trianglea triangle with at least two sides of the same length
quadrilaterala polygon with 4 sides
vertexthe common endpoint of two rays forming an angle
complementarytwo angles whose measures add up to 90 degrees
unit ratea rate in which the second number in the comparison is one unit
supplementarytwo angles whose measures add up to 180 degrees
circumferencethe perimeter of a circle
pifor any circle, the ratio of the circumference to the diameter
volumethe number of cubic units an object contains
areathe amount of surface a figure covers
surface areathe sum of the areas of each face of a polyhedron
proportiona pair of equal ratios
percenta ratio comparing a number to 100
ratioa comparison of two quantities, often written as a fraction

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