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circular segment

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Also known as disk segment, disc segment

slice of a circle cut perpendicular to the radius

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Encyclopedic overview

A circular segment (in green) is enclosed between a secant/chord (the dashed line) and the arc whose endpoints equal the chord's (the arc shown above the green area).

In geometry, a circular segment or disk segment (symbol: ⌓) is a region of a disk which is "cut off" from the rest of the disk by a straight line. The complete line is known as a secant, and the section inside the disk as a chord.

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