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This document defines various mathematical terms across several categories. It includes definitions for types of angles, sets, numbers, fractions, planes, polygons, percentages, and other geometric and algebraic concepts. Terms are defined succinctly with symbols and examples to illustrate meanings. The glossary provides essential information about mathematical terms in a condensed reference format.
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This document defines various mathematical terms across several categories. It includes definitions for types of angles, sets, numbers, fractions, planes, polygons, percentages, and other geometric and algebraic concepts. Terms are defined succinctly with symbols and examples to illustrate meanings. The glossary provides essential information about mathematical terms in a condensed reference format.
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GLOSSARY

ADJACENT ANGLES: Supplementary angles that have a common side.

COMPLETE ANGLES: Two angles for which the sum of their measures is equal to 180º.

SUPPLEMENTARY ANGLES: Two angles for which the sum of their measures is equal to 180º.

B.

BICONDITIONAL: The biconditional, or double implication is the proposition composed of two


simple statements linked by the logical connective "if and only if".

BISECTRIX OF AN ANGLE: Ray that starts from the vertex and divides an angle into two angles of
equal measure.

C.

COMPLEMENT OF A SET: The complement of a set A is another set formed by the elements of the
universal set U that do not belong to the set A. It is symbolized U-A.

DISJOINT SETS: Two sets A and B are disjoint if they have no common elements.

INTERSECTING SETS: Two sets A and B are interesting if they have common elements.

SQUARE: Quadrilateral whose four internal angles measure 90º and whose angles have the same
measure.

QUADRILATERAL: Region limited by four segments, among which there are not three collinear.

QUANTIFIER: Mathematical symbol that indicates the number of elements of a set that meet a
certain condition.

D.

DATA: Quantities or measures obtained from observations, comparisons and application of


surveys.

EXACT DECIMAL: Decimal representation of a rational number whose decimal part is infinite.

PERIODIC DECIMAL: Decimal representation of a rational number whose decimal part is made up
of a number or finite set of numbers that are repeated indefinitely. The repeating period is noted
by writing a segment on top of said tokens.

PROOF: Logical reasoning that is carried out to conclude the thesis of a theorem.

FACTOR DECOMPOSITION: Any expression that relates numbers by means of the symbols < AND >.
SET DIFFERENCE: The difference between two sets A and B is the set formed by the elements that
belong to A and that do not belong to B.

SYMMETRICAL DIFFERENCE: Set of elements that belong to A U B and do not belong to A n B.

DIVISOR: A number a is a divisor of a number b when the division of b by a is exact.

AND

EQUATION: Equality between two algebraic expressions. Which is valid only for certain values of
the variables.

AXIS OF SYMMETRY OF A FIGURE: Line that divides it into two parts that coincide exactly.

SCALE: Reason that indicates the relationship between the real dimensions and those of a drawing
representing reality.

STATISTICS: Science responsible for the collection, organization, analysis, representation and
interpretation of data from which it draws conclusions.

SYMMETRICAL FIGURES: Two figures are symmetric about an axis L, if all the corresponding pairs
of points in said figures are equidistant from the axis L.

DECIMAL FRACTION: Fraction whose denominator is a power of 10.

IMPROPER FRACTION: A fraction in which the numerator is greater than the denominator.

PROPER FRACTION: Fraction in which the numerator is less than the denominator.

EQUIVALENT FRACTIONS: Fractions that express the same quantity. In them the product of their
diagonal terms is equal.

ADSOLUTE FREQUENCY: Number of times a certain value of the statistical variable being studied is
repeated.

ACCUMULATED FREQUENCY: Number of events that have occurred or individuals that present a
characteristic of the variable up to the moment considered.

RELATIVE FREQUENCY: Ratio between the absolute frequency and the number of individuals in the
population in a statistical study.

Yo

IMPLICATION OR CONDITIONAL: Preposition composed of two simple prepositions linked by the


logical connective "then".
INFORMATION: Result of data processing.

INTERSECTION: The intersection between two sets A and B is the set formed by the common
elements of A n B.

POLYGONAL LINE: Union of continuous segments.

GREATEST COMMON DIVISOR: The gcf of two or more numbers is equal to the product of their
common prime factors with their smallest exponent.

MIDITRIX OF A SEGMENT: Perpendicular line that passes through the midpoint of a segment.

LEAST COMMON MULTIPLE: The lcm of two or more numbers is the product of all the prime
factors.

No.

NUMERAL: Symbol that represents a fixed quantity.

NUMBER: Idea associated one by one to each numeral.

COMPOSITE NUMBERS: Those that can be expressed as the product of two or more prime
numbers.

PRIME NUMBERS: Numbers that have only two divisors: one and the number itself.

ORDERED PAIR: Pair formed by two elements in which the order is decisive.

COINCIDENT PLANES: Two planes that have non-collinear common points.

PARALLEL PLANES: Two planes that have no point in common.

SECANT PLANES: Two planes that intersect to determine a common line.

POPULATION: Set of individuals, objects or phenomena which it is desired to study one or several
characteristics.

CONCAVE POLYGON: Polygon that has an interior angle greater than 180º.

COVEX POLYGON: Polygon that has an angle less than 180º.

REGULAR POLYGON: Polygon in which the measure of all its sides is the same and the opening of
its interior angles is the same.
PERCENTAGE: Result of applying the percentage to a given amount.

POWER: Expression used to indicate the multiplication of a factor by itself a certain number of
times.

RELATIVE PRIME: Numbers whose only common divisor is 1.

R.

NTH ROOT: The nth root of a number P is B, if B raised to n is equal to P.

DECIMAL REPRESENTATION OF A RATIONAL NUMBER: Numerical expression formed by an integer


part and a decimal part separated by means of a comma or decimal point.

ADJASENT SEGMENTS: Two segments that are on opposite rays and have a common origin on it.

CONTIGUOUS SYSTEM: Two segments that have a common endpoint, but are not contained in the
same line.

NUMBERING SYSTEM: Set of symbols with well-defined rules of combination. These symbols are
used to represent quantities and perform operations with them.

Subset: A set A is a subset of B if all the elements of A are in B.

OR

UNION: The union between two sets A AND B is the set formed by the elements that belong to
one or the other set counted only once, it is written A U B.

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