Below you will find example sentences with "line segment". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Line Segment in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: segment
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 8
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 27 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 5 start, 10 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "line segment" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 27 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a directed line segment from the, a line segment joining a, points, two and distance stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with offensive line, finish line and defensive line, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with line segment
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
The circle is unrolled to a line segment (the bottom solid line) for graphing purposes. (15 words)
Equivalently, there exists a line segment between two boundary points that passes outside the polygon. (15 words)
The (black) line segment joining points x and y lies completely within the (green) set. (15 words)
For example, a line segment of unit length is a line segment of length 1. Etymology The word one can be used as a noun, an adjective and a pronoun. citation It comes from the English word an, which comes from the Proto-Germanic root *ainaz. (46 words)
A line segment joining a vertex of a tetrahedron with the centroid of the opposite face is called a median and a line segment joining the midpoints of two opposite edges is called a bimedian of the tetrahedron. (38 words)
A polyhedron is said to be convex if its surface (comprising its faces, edges and vertices) does not intersect itself and the line segment joining any two points of the polyhedron is contained in the interior or surface. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
The both above displayed different algorithms produce geometric constructions that divides a line segment into two line segments where the ratio of the longer to the shorter line segment is the golden ratio.
A line segment joining a vertex of a tetrahedron with the centroid of the opposite face is called a median and a line segment joining the midpoints of two opposite edges is called a bimedian of the tetrahedron.
For example, a line segment of unit length is a line segment of length 1. Etymology The word one can be used as a noun, an adjective and a pronoun. citation It comes from the English word an, which comes from the Proto-Germanic root *ainaz.
This arc intersects the original line segment AB at point S. Point S divides the original segment AB into line segments AS and SB with lengths in the golden ratio.
A proof from Euclid's Elements that, given a line segment, an equilateral triangle exists that includes the segment as one of its sides.
However, bicycles are not allowed at any time on the Green Line, or the Ashmont–Mattapan High Speed Line segment of the Red Line.
An orthogonal line dropped from the Monge point to any face meets that face at the midpoint of the line segment between that face's orthocenter and the foot of the altitude dropped from the opposite vertex.
Projections to 2 dimensions The construction of a hypercube can be imagined the following way: * 1-dimensional: Two points A and B can be connected to a line, giving a new line segment AB.
The circle is unrolled to a line segment (the bottom solid line) for graphing purposes.
A common adaptive method is recursive subdivision, in which a curve's control points are checked to see if the curve approximates a line segment to within a small tolerance.
A polyhedron is said to be convex if its surface (comprising its faces, edges and vertices) does not intersect itself and the line segment joining any two points of the polyhedron is contained in the interior or surface.
A single point may be considered a 0-simplex, and a line segment may be considered a 1-simplex.
A vector can be described as a directed line segment from the origin of the Euclidean space (vector tail), to a point in that space (vector tip).
Definition The Euclidean distance between points p and q is the length of the line segment connecting them ( ).
Equivalently, any line segment with endpoints on the boundary passes through only interior points between its endpoints.
Equivalently, there exists a line segment between two boundary points that passes outside the polygon.
Louis Poinsot in 1803 began representing rotations as a line segment perpendicular to the rotation, and elaborated on the "conservation of moments".
Relations between p -norms The grid distance or rectilinear distance (sometimes called the "Manhattan distance") between two points is never shorter than the length of the line segment between them (the Euclidean or "as the crow flies" distance).
The (black) line segment joining points x and y lies completely within the (green) set.
The Euclidean metric defines the distance between two points as the length of the straight line segment connecting them.