kite

Also known as deltoid, dart, kite shape, kite quadrilateral

quadrilateral whose four sides can be grouped into two pairs of equal-length sides that are adjacent to each other

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A kite is a four-sided shape where the sides can be grouped into two pairs, with each pair having equal length and sharing a corner. Kites appear frequently in geometry and have practical applications in everything from actual flying kites to engineering and design.

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In Euclidean geometry, a kite is a quadrilateral with reflection symmetry across a diagonal. Because of this symmetry, a kite has two equal angles and two pairs of adjacent equal-length sides. Kites are also known as deltoids, but the word deltoid may also refer to a deltoid curve, an unrelated geometric object sometimes studied in connection with quadrilaterals. A kite may also be called a dart, particularly if it is not convex.

Every kite is an orthodiagonal quadrilateral (its diagonals are at right angles) and, when convex, a tangential quadrilateral (its sides are tangent to an inscribed circle). The convex kites are exactly the quadrilaterals that are both orthodiagonal and tangential. They include as special cases the right kites, with two opposite right angles; the rhombi, with two diagonal axes of symmetry; and the squares, which are also special cases of both right kites and rhombi.