Orthocenter

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The point of intersection of the three altitudes of a triangle.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. : the intersection of the three lines that can be drawn flowing from the three corners of a triangle to a point along the opposite side where each line intersects that side at a 90 degree angle; in an acute triangle, it is inside the triangle; in an obtuse triangle, it is outside the triangle.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. That point in which the three perpendiculars let fall from the angles of a triangle upon the opposite sides, or the sides produced, mutually intersect.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The cointersection point of the straight lines through the three vertexes of a triangle perpendicular to the opposite sides.
    • Word Usage
    "The first is called the orthocenter, and is the intersection of the lines from each vertex that meet the opposing sides perpendicularly, which are called the altitudes."
     
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