Circumscribed Meaning In Math
Usually called the circumcircle.
Circumscribed meaning in math. Where circumscribed usually means drawn around the outside of something the word inscribedmeans something drawn inside a figure. It should limit the inside shape within itself. There are three different cases when a figure is circumscribed around another geometric figure. A geometric figure that is drawn around another geometric figure so as to touch all its vertices is called circumscribed.
When a polygon is circumscribed around a circle. A circle that passes through every vertex of a triangle or regular polygon. Here a circle is circumscribed around a triangle and then around a regular pentagon. Triangles in the case of a triangle there is always a circumcircle possible no matter what shape the triangle is.
A circumscribed circle of a triangle for example is the circle that passes through all three vertices.