Usually means: Perpendicular distance from center to side.
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  1. apothem: Merriam-Webster
  2. apothem: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. apothem: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. apothem: Collins English Dictionary
  5. apothem: Wordnik
  6. apothem: Wiktionary
  7. apothem: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. apothem: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Apothem, apothem: Dictionary.com
  10. Apothem: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Apothem: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. apothem: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Apothem: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. apothem: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. apothem: FreeDictionary.org
  16. apothem: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. apothem: Merriam-Webster

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  1. apothem: Encyclopedia

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  1. Apothem: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. apothem: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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  1. apothem: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (apothem)

noun:  (geometry) The perpendicular distance from the center of a circle to a chord of the same circle.
noun:  (geometry) The distance from the center of a regular polygon perpendicular to one of its sides (a special case of the above).

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