Lemoine hexagon

English

Lemoine hexagon

Etymology

Named after the French mathematician Émile Lemoine.

Noun

Lemoine hexagon (plural Lemoine hexagons)

(geometry) A cyclic hexagon with vertices given by the six intersections of the edges of a triangle and the three lines that are parallel to the edges that pass through its symmedian point.

See also

first Lemoine circle
Tucker hexagon
Mathworld article on the Lemoine hexagon

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