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Q: What is a line segment bisecting a circle or sphere?
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What is a line that cuts a circle or a sphere in half called?

a bisecting line ? Diameter ______________ The question needs to be re-thought. Lines do not cut spheres in half, no matter where the line is in the sphere. The simplest thing that can cut a sphere in half would be a plane.


What is the length of a line segment between the center and circumference of a circle or sphere?

radius


Are lines on a sphere in the same plane?

Not necessarily. A plane dissecting a sphere would create a circle in that plane. so in order for the "line" to be both on the plane and the sphere the line would have to be a curve or segment of a circle.


A line that divides a line segment into 2 congruent parts?

bisecting


What is a line segment between two points on the circle or sphere which passes through the center?

A diameter - provided it meets the boundary of the circle or sphere on opposite sides.


What is a radii of a circle?

Radii is the plural of radius. A radius is the length of a line segment between the center and the circumference of a circle or sphere.


What is the name of straight line bisecting a circle?

A diameter bisects a circle.


Why does the compass width have to be longer than half when bisecting a segment?

So that the arcs constructed are at midpoint of the line segment to be bisected.


A segment with endpoints on a circle?

A chord is a line segment whose endpoints lie on a circle. A secant is a line (or line segment) that intersects a circle in two places, endpoints NOT on the circle.


What is a line segment with one endpoint at the center of a circle and the other endpoint on the circle or the length of that segment?

The line segment is a radius.


What is a line segment with on endpoint on a circle and the other endpoint at the center?

Such a line segment would be a radius of the circle.


A line segment that connects the center of a circle to a point on the circle?

what about such a line segment? the length of such a segment is called the radius. the area of the circle is pi*the length of this segment squared the circumference is 2*pi*the length of this segment