Exterior Angle (Noun)
Meaning
The supplement of an interior angle of a polygon.
Classification
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes.
Examples
- The measure of an exterior angle of a polygon is equal to the sum of the remote interior angles, forming a linear pair.
- The supplement of an interior angle of a polygon can be found by measuring the corresponding exterior angle.
- For a simple polygon, the exterior angle is formed by extending one side of the polygon and connecting it to a point outside the polygon.
- The exterior angle of a regular polygon can be used to find the interior angle, since they are supplementary.
- Since a quadrilateral's exterior angle is supplementary to an interior angle, we can use this property to calculate missing angle measures.