In Euclidean geometry, a tangential polygon, also known as a circumscribed polygon, is a convex polygon that contains an inscribed circle (also called an incircle). This is a circle that is tangent to each of the polygon's sides. The dual polygon of a tangential polygon is a cyclic polygon, which has a circumscribed circle passing through each of its vertices.
All triangles are tangential, as are all regular polygons with any number of sides. A well-studied group of tangential polygons are the tangential quadrilaterals, which include the rhombi and kites.
and 26 Related for: Tangential polygon information
In Euclidean geometry, a tangentialpolygon, also known as a circumscribed polygon, is a convex polygon that contains an inscribed circle (also called...
are no longer sufficient to determine the shape of the pentagon. A tangentialpolygon (one that has an incircle tangent to all its sides) is equilateral...
quadrilaterals, and circumscriptible quadrilaterals. Tangential quadrilaterals are a special case of tangentialpolygons. Other less frequently used names for this...
approximation of convex polygonsTangentialpolygon – Convex polygon that contains an inscribed circle Definition and properties of convex polygons with interactive...
A tangentialpolygon is a polygon each of whose sides is tangent to a particular circle, called its incircle. Every triangle is a tangentialpolygon, as...
square is equable. A tangentialpolygon is a polygon in which the sides are all tangent to a common circle. Every tangentialpolygon may be triangulated...
to every side at the midpoint. Thus a regular polygon is a tangentialpolygon. A regular n-sided polygon can be constructed with compass and straightedge...
the dual (a tangentialpolygon), and shorter sides to smaller angles.[citation needed] Further, congruent sides in the original polygon yields congruent...
sums of the previous n-gon. A tangentialpolygon is one having an inscribed circle tangent to each side of the polygon; these tangency points are thus...
each side of the polygon. Every regular polygon and every triangle is a tangentialpolygon. A cyclic polygon is any convex polygon about which a circle...
symmetry orbit. The polygon is also equilateral and tangential. The property of regularity may be defined in other ways: a polygon is regular if and only...
case the polygon is said to be a tangentialpolygon. A polygon inscribed in a circle is said to be a cyclic polygon, and the circle is said to be its...
cyclic polygons: the circumcentre is equidistant from each of the vertices. Likewise, the incentre of a triangle or any other tangentialpolygon is equidistant...
In geometry, a bicentric polygon is a tangentialpolygon (a polygon all of whose sides are tangent to an inner incircle) which is also cyclic — that is...
centers form an orthocentric system. but not all polygons do; those that do are tangentialpolygons. See also tangent lines to circles. Suppose △ A B...
In fact, every regular polygon is a circumgonal region, as is more generally every tangentialpolygon. But not every polygon is a circumgonal region:...
reference triangle is the Gergonne triangle of the tangential triangle. Tangential quadrilateral Tangentialpolygon Altshiller-Court, Nathan. College Geometry...
group of triangle centers. For polygons with more than three sides, the incenter only exists for tangentialpolygons - those that have an incircle that...
perpendicular line through the centroid of an arbitrary polygon or the incenter of a tangentialpolygon, depending on the source. Likewise, a right bipyramid...
bicentric, meaning that it is both cyclic (has a circumscribed circle) and tangential (has an inscribed circle). The common length of the sides equals the radius...
differentiable paths with nowhere vanishing derivatives), and is the degree of the tangential Gauss map. This is called the turning number, rotation number, rotation...
every face must have an inscribed circle (that is, it must be a tangentialpolygon), and all of these inscribed circles must belong to a single sphere...
: p.125 In a tangential quadrilateral, the four angle bisectors concur at the center of the incircle. Other concurrencies of a tangential quadrilateral...