"apothem" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈæp.ə.θɛm/ Audio: en-us-apothegm.ogg [US] Forms: apothems [plural]
enPR: ăpə-thĕm′ Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀπόθεμα (apóthema, “deposit”), from ἀπό (apó, “off, away”) + θέμα (théma, “that which is laid down”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*dʰeh₁-}}, {{uder|en|grc|ἀπόθεμα||deposit}} Ancient Greek ἀπόθεμα (apóthema, “deposit”), {{m|grc|ἀπό||off, away}} ἀπό (apó, “off, away”), {{m|grc|θέμα||that which is laid down}} θέμα (théma, “that which is laid down”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} apothem (plural apothems)
  1. (geometry) The perpendicular distance from the center of a circle to a chord of the same circle. Categories (topical): Geometry Translations (perpendicular distance from the center of a circle to a chord): apoteema (Finnish), apothème (French), Inkreisradius [masculine] (German), απόστημα (apóstima) [feminine] (Greek), toropū hāngai (Maori), apotema [feminine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-apothem-en-noun-p6uPftjN Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences Disambiguation of 'perpendicular distance from the center of a circle to a chord': 59 41
  2. (geometry) The distance from the center of a regular polygon perpendicular to one of its sides (a special case of the above). Categories (topical): Geometry, Mathematics
    Sense id: en-apothem-en-noun-1RX5h1Sv Disambiguation of Mathematics: 42 58 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 40 60 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 26 74 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 38 62 Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (the distance from the center of a polygon to a side): апотема (apotema) (Bulgarian), 邊心距 (Chinese Mandarin), 边心距 (biānxīnjù) (Chinese Mandarin), apoteema (Finnish), apothème (French), Inkreisradius [masculine] (German), απόστημα (apóstima) [feminine] (Greek), apotéma (Hungarian), apotemo (Ido), toropū hāngai (Maori), apotema [feminine] (Polish), apótema [masculine] (Portuguese), apotema [feminine] (Spanish)
Disambiguation of 'the distance from the center of a polygon to a side': 45 55

Inflected forms

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