orthocentre
orthocentre is the alternative form of orthocenter.
Meaning of orthocenter
Noun
orthocenter (plural orthocenters)
- One of the centers (UK:centres) of a triangle, defined as being the intersection of its three altitudes; in an acute triangle, it is inside the triangle; in an obtuse triangle, it is outside the triangle; in a right-angled triangle it is the vertex opposite the hypotenuse and so is on the triangle.
Forms of orthocentre
| plural | orthocentres |
|---|---|
| alternative form | orthocenter |
Origin of orthocentre
From ortho- + centre.
Words that rhyme with orthocentre
- center
- enter
- tormentor
- concentre
- presenter
- renter
- stentor
- venter
- accentor
- cementer
- decentre
- preventer
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- reenter
- tenter
- assenter
- fermenter
- hypocentre
- indenter
- off-centre
- Valley Center
- absenter
- assentor
- augmenter
- augmentor
- barycentre
- centre
- coinventor
- concenter
- consenter
- correction center
- correction centre
- decenter
- dementor
- dissenter
- entre
- fermentor
- fomenter
- incenter
- incentre
- indentor
- innoventor
- inventer
- inventor
- inventour
- lamenter
- mentor
- metacentre
- misenter
- off-center
- orthocenter
- precentor
- re-enter
- re-entre
- reentre
- repenter
- representer
- salipenter
- Siberian accentor
- tormenter
Questions about orthocentre
- What is orthocentre the alternative form of?
- Orthocentre is the alternative form of orthocenter.
Words near orthocentre in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: orthocentre (page history and authors); orthocenter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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