This document provides information about medians, altitudes, and perpendicular bisectors of triangles: 1) A median is a line segment connecting a vertex to the midpoint of the opposite side. A triangle has 3 medians. The point where the 3 medians intersect is called the centroid. 2) An altitude is a line segment from a vertex perpendicular to the opposite side. It represents the "true height" of the triangle. 3) A perpendicular bisector is a line segment through the midpoint of a side, perpendicular to that side. The two segments formed on either side are congruent.