Triangle Centers and Concepts

  • Circumcenter – Intersection of perpendicular bisectors; center of the circumcircle; equidistant from vertices.

  • Incenter – Intersection of angle bisectors; center of the incircle; equidistant from sides.

  • Centroid – Intersection of medians; center of mass; divides medians in a 2:1 ratio.

  • Orthocenter – Intersection of altitudes; no distance properties; can be inside, on, or outside the triangle.

  • Median – Segment from a vertex to the midpoint of the opposite side.

  • Altitude – Perpendicular segment from a vertex to the opposite side.

  • Angle Bisector – Segment that splits an angle into two equal parts.

  • Perpendicular Bisector – Line that is perpendicular to a segment at its midpoint.