apothem in a sentence
Examples
- My question is ( thank God, right ? ) : what is the difference in meaning between apothem and maxim ( which Havens uses as a synonym for apothem )?
- The apothem, which is the radius " r " of the inscribed circle, of a regular pentagon is related to the side length " t " by
- Specifically, it equals " n " times the apothem, where " n " is the number of sides and the apothem is the distance from the center to a side.
- Specifically, it equals " n " times the apothem, where " n " is the number of sides and the apothem is the distance from the center to a side.
- The "'apothem "'( sometimes abbreviated as "'apo "') of a regular polygon is a line segment from the center to the midpoint of one of its sides.
- For an equilateral triangle, the apothem is equivalent to the line segment from the midpoint of a side to any of the triangle's centers, since an equilateral triangle's centers coincide as a consequence of the definition.
- This can be seen by subdividing the unit-sided heptagon into seven triangular " pie slices " with vertices at the center and at the heptagon's vertices, and then halving each triangle using the apothem as the common side.
- The common length of the sides equals the radius of the circumscribed circle, which equals \ tfrac { 2 \ sqrt { 3 } } { 3 } times the apothem ( radius of the equilateral, and that the regular hexagon can be partitioned into six equilateral triangles.
- Note that, given a regular dodecahedron of edge length one, " r u " is the radius of a circumscribing sphere about a cube of edge length " ? ", and " r i " is the apothem of a regular pentagon of edge length " ? ".
- Here is literary critic Raymond Havens'use of the line for context : " As to the quotation marks, if they are Keats's own and not a mistake they may have been intended to indicate, not the words of the urn, but an apothem, the kind of thing that is usually quoted.