secant line
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- Subclass of
- line
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- Circle and lines
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- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
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Encyclopedic overview
In geometry, a secant is a line that intersects a curve at a minimum of two distinct points. The word secant comes from the Latin word secare, meaning "to cut". In the case of a circle, a secant intersects the circle at exactly two points. A chord is the line segment determined by the two points, that is, the interval on the secant whose ends are the two points.
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