AB is a chord of a circle. AB divides the circumference of the circle into two parts. The part with the longer length is called ____ and the part with shorter length is called ____.
major arc, minor arc
Given, AB is the chord of the circle with center O.
Now you can see that the chord AB divides the circle into 2 parts ACB and ADB. The larger arc (ACB) is called the major arc
and the smaller arc is called the minor arc.