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protractor

• an instrument used to measure angles in degrees.
• protractors may be circular, a full rotation of 360º,
but many are a semi-circle of 180º.
• to measure an angle the crosshairs of the protractor need
to be exactly lined up with the vertex of the angle,
• the vertex is the point where the
two rays of the angle meet.

EXAMPLES:
protractor


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