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Circle Variants

February 21, 2019

A diagram of joke 'circle' variants defined by their prefixes, all inside one big 'omnicircle.'

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2019-02-21-circle-variants/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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[Inside a big circle labeled "Omnicircle"] Semicircle (a half disk) · Quasicircle (a blob) · Supercircle (a sphere) · Protocircle (a dot) · Orthocircle (a square) · Chronocircle (a clock)

Topics
Geometry › CirclesGeometry › SpheresMath Culture › Math Vocabulary
Level
Middle SchoolHigh School
Themes
Language & WordplayPunsVisual Explanations