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What is a perpendicular bisector?


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Perpendicular bisector.

  • Perpendicular means a line or a line segment that makes an angle of 90°with another line or line segment
  • A perpendicular bisector is a line or a line segment divides a given line segment into parts of equal length and intersect at 90°.

The perpendicular bisector is shown in the image below:

Perpendicular bisector definition - Math Open Reference

Thus, a perpendicular bisector intersects another line segment at 90° and divided it into two equal parts.


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