Segment

A segment is a piece of a line consisting of two distinct endpoints and all the points between them.

segment A B

A segment is named using the endpoints. In this case, the segment with endpoints A and B is named segment A B or segment B A.

Can you describe how segment A B and line B A are different?

Segment

segment A B		 Line

line A B

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Description:

The line continues through points A and B in each direction while the segment stops at the endpoints A and B.

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