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apothem

The perpendicular distance from the center of a regular polygon to the midpoint of one of its sides.

GRESAT

Example

To find the area of a regular hexagon, multiply the apothem by the perimeter and divide by two.

Synonyms

inradiusshort radiusdistanceperpendicularmeasurement

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