Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The perpendicular distance from the center of a regular polygon to any of its sides.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In geometry, a perpendicular let fall from the center of a regular polygon upon one of its sides.
- noun In pharmaceutics, the more or less completely insoluble brownish substance deposited when vegetable infusions, decoctions, tinctures, etc., are subjected to prolonged evaporation by heat with access of air. The substance or substances out of which it is in this way formed constitute the so-called
extractive .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Math.) The perpendicular from the center to one of the sides of a regular polygon.
- noun A deposit formed in a liquid extract of a vegetable substance by exposure to the air.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geometry The
perpendicular distance from thecenter of acircle to achord of the same circle. - noun geometry The distance from the center of a
regular polygon perpendicular to one of its sides (a special case of the above).
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He previously gained points to qualify for the semifinal round by correctly spelling "apothem" and "caponata."
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When gm is final drop the silent g: apothem, diagram, flem.
Chapter 8. American Spelling. 5. Simplified Spelling Henry Louis 1921
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Further, as M. M.urice Girard has pointed out, the apothem of the cell varies among different races of bees, so that the standard would alter from hive to hive, according to the species of bee that inhabited it.
The Life of the Bee Maurice Maeterlinck 1905
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The slant height or apothem is 5 / 3 or 1.666 ... times the semi-base.
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How do you find the area of an equilateral traingle with a radius of 12 and an apothem of 6?
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Mathematical pyramids • A pyramid in which the apothem (slant height along the bisector of a face) is equal to φ times the semi-base (half the base width) is sometimes called a golden pyramid.
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How do you find the area of an equilateral traingle with a radius of 12 and an apothem of 6?
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The isoceles triangle that is the face of such a pyramid can be constructed from the two halves of a diagonally split golden rectangle (of size semi-base by apothem), joining the medium-length edges to make the apothem.
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• A regular square pyramid is determined by its medial right triangle, whose edges are the pyramid's apothem (a), semi-base (b), and height (h); the face inclination angle is also marked.
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· new shapes: regular polygon by center, vertex or apothem, and vertex number
hernesheir commented on the word apothem
(n): In geometry, a perpendicular from the center of a regular polygon to a side. NOT to be confused with apothegm.
January 15, 2009