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Orthogonal circles

In geometry, two circles are said to be orthogonal if their respective tangent lines at the points of intersection are perpendicular (meet at a right angle).

A straight line through a circle's center is orthogonal to it, and if straight lines are also considered as a kind of generalized circles, for instance in inversive geometry, then an orthogonal pair of lines or line and circle are orthogonal generalized circles.

In the conformal disk model of the hyperbolic plane, every geodesic is an arc of a generalized circle orthogonal to the circle of ideal points bounding the disk.

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