Altitude and Orthocenter of a triangle

Description of the altitudet and the orthocenter of a triangle


A triangle has different line segments with an intersection. One of the line segments are the altitude of the triangle.

  • An altitude of a triangle is a right-angled line from a vertex to its opposite side

  • The altitudes of a triangle can be drawn from any vertex, therefore each triangle has three altitudes

  • When the three altitudes of a triangle intersect, their intersection is called an orthocenter

  • An orthocenter can lie inside, on or outside the triangle, depending on its angles


Angle bisector
Median
Altitude and the Orthocenter
Triangle bisector
Pythagorean theorem
Pythagorean triples
Circle
Square
Rectangle
Rhombus
Parallelogram
Trapezoid

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