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What are antiparallel lines?
Firstly, what are parallel lines?
Now, consider the following diagram :
In the diagram, (in red) and are parallel. Thus,
(The equal angles are highlighted in the same colour)
Thus, what can we say about and ?
They're similar because they have 2 angles that have the same measure.
Why did I tell you about this when I'm suppose to talk about antiparallel lines? They're actually quite similar. Consider the following diagram :
is a triangle. Let be a point on . The circumcircle of intersect at . (marked in yellow) and (marked in cyan) are called antiparallel.
Now, what can we say about the diagram?
So, what can we say about and ?
Again, .
Note that in the second diagram is the same as in the first diagram reflected about the angle bisector of .
Thus, we arrive at the definition :
Given a line , we say that and (both not parallel to ) are antiparallel with respect to if the reflection of of about is parallel to . Often, if the line is clear in the context, we often just say that is antiparallel to .