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Also known as circumcircle

circle that passes through all the vertices of a polygon

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Four cyclic polygons, each with a circle circumscribed about it

In geometry, a circumscribed circle for a set of points is a circle passing through each of them. Such a circle is said to circumscribe the points or a polygon formed from them; such a polygon is said to be inscribed in the circle.

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