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incenter

American

[in-sen-ter] / ˈɪnˌsɛn tər /

noun

Geometry.

the center of an inscribed circle; that point where the bisectors of the angles of a triangle or of a regular polygon intersect.

Etymology

Origin of incenter

First recorded in 1900–05; in- ¹ + center

Example Sentences

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The bisectors of the various interior and exterior angles of a triangle are concurrent by threes in the incenter or in one of the three excenters of the triangle.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

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