Incircle and excircles of a triangle polygon with any number of sides that has an inscribed circle—one that is tangent to each side—is called a tangential polygon. Incircle and excircles of a triangle In geometry, the incircle or inscribed circle of a triangle is the largest circle contained in the triangle; it touches (is tangent to) the three sides. The center of the incircle is a triangle center called the triangle's incenter. An excircle or escribed circle of the triangle is a circle lying outside the triangle, tangent to one of its sides and tangent to the extensions of the other two. Every triangle has three
Chord (geometry) Chord (geometry) A chord of a circle is a straight line segment whose endpoints both lie on the circle. A secant line, or just "secant", is the infinite line extension of a chord. More generally, a chord is a line segment joining two points on any curve, for instance an ellipse. A chord that passes through a circle's center point is the circle's diameter. Every diameter is a chord, but not every chord is a diameter. The word "chord" is from the Latin "chorda" meaning "bowstring". Among properties of chords of a circle are the following: The midpoints of a