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High School Geometry/Segments and Distance
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A line segment is a portion of a line that has two endpoints and includes all of the points in between those endpoints. A segment, therefore, does not extend in two directions. It ends at two different places on a line (denoted by endpoints). A line segment can be named by these endpoints, with a horizontal bar above the letters ( ).