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arbelos
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right|thumb|320px|An arbelos (grey region) thumb|Arbelos sculpture in Kaatsheuvel, Netherlands

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Arbelos.svg
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Arbelos
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Category:Arbelos
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Contents
  • Properties
  • Area
  • Rectangle
  • Tangents
  • Archimedes' circles
  • Variations and generalisations
  • Etymology
  • See also
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • External links

right|thumb|320px|An arbelos (grey region) thumb|Arbelos sculpture in Kaatsheuvel, Netherlands

In geometry, an arbelos is a plane region bounded by three semicircles with three apexes such that each corner of each semicircle is shared with one of the others (connected), all on the same side of a straight line (the baseline) that contains their diameters.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “arbelos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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