Euclid's Elements
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Definitions

Definition 1.
Equal circles are those whose diameters are equal, or whose radii are equal.
Definition 2.
A straight line is said to touch a circle which, meeting the circle and being produced, does not cut the circle.
Definition 3.
Circles are said to touch one another which meet one another but do not cut one another.
Definition 4.
Straight lines in a circle are said to be equally distant from the center when the perpendiculars drawn to them from the center are equal.
Definition 5.
And that straight line is said to be at a greater distance on which the greater perpendicular falls.
Definition 6.
A segment of a circle is the figure contained by a straight line and a circumference of a circle.
Definition 7.
An angle of a segment is that contained by a straight line and a circumference of a circle.
Definition 8.
An angle in a segment is the angle which, when a point is taken on the circumference of the segment and straight lines are joined from it to the ends of the straight line which is the base of the segment, is contained by the straight lines so joined.
Definition 9.
And, when the straight lines containing the angle cut off a circumference, the angle is said to stand upon that circumference.
Definition 10.
A sector of a circle is the figure which, when an angle is constructed at the center of the circle, is contained by the straight lines containing the angle and the circumference cut off by them.
Definition 11.
Similar segments of circles are those which admit equal angles, or in which the angles equal one another.