Secant line Secant line In geometry, a secant of a curve is a line that intersects the curve in at least two (distinct) points. The word "secant" comes from the Latin word "secare", meaning "to cut". In the case of a circle, a secant will intersect the circle in exactly two points and a chord is the line segment determined by these two points, that is the interval on a secant whose endpoints are these points. A straight line can intersect a circle in two, one or zero points. A line intersecting in two points is called a "secant line", in one
Fife Circle Line the full circle to Glenrothes. Some services regularly ran through to/from until 2015, but with the opening of the Borders Railway in September that year this routing ceased (except for a small number of weekday peak trains). Here the main line and loop line divide. The two lines join forming a circle. The east peninsula of Fife beyond Kirkcaldy is not served by railways post-Beeching. At one time a railway ran all the way from Thornton to St Andrews round the coast of Fife. The Beeching Report in fact recommended services continue between Thornton and Leven but these fell victim