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Antiparallel lines

In geometry, two lines and are antiparallel with respect to a given line if they each make congruent angles with in opposite senses. More generally, lines and are antiparallel with respect to another pair of lines and if they are antiparallel with respect to the angle bisector of and

In any cyclic quadrilateral, any two opposite sides are antiparallel with respect to the other two sides.

Relations

  1. The line joining the feet to two altitudes of a triangle is antiparallel to the third side. (any cevians which 'see' the third side with the same angle create antiparallel lines)
  2. The tangent to a triangle's circumcircle at a vertex is antiparallel to the opposite side.
  3. The radius of the circumcircle at a vertex is perpendicular to all lines antiparallel to the opposite sides.

Conic sections

In an oblique cone, there are exactly two families of parallel planes whose sections with the cone are circles. One of these families is parallel to the fixed generating circle and the other is called by Apollonius the subcontrary sections.

If one looks at the triangles formed by the diameters of the circular sections (both families) and the vertex of the cone (triangles and ), they are all similar. That is, if and are antiparallel with respect to lines and , then all sections of the cone parallel to either one of these circles will be circles. This is Book 1, Proposition 5 in Apollonius.

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