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base (geometry)
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Base (geometry)
In
geometry
, a
base
is a
side
of a
polygon
or a
face
of a
polyhedron
, particularly one oriented
perpendicular
to the direction in which height is measured, or on what is considered to be the "bottom" of the figure. This term is commonly applied to
triangles
,
parallelograms
,
trapezoids
,
cylinders
,
cones
,
pyramids
,
parallelepipeds
and
frustums
.
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