Extended side
Image:Incircle and Excircles.svg|thumb|300px|Each of a triangle's excircles is tangent to one of the triangle's sides and to the other two extended sides.
In plane geometry, an extended side or sideline of a polygon is the line that contains one side of the polygon. The extension of a finite side into an infinite line arises in various contexts.
Triangle
In an obtuse triangle, the altitudes from the acute angled vertices intersect the corresponding extended base sides but not the base sides themselves.The excircles of a triangle, as well as the triangle's inconics that are not inellipses, are externally tangent to one side and to the other two extended sides.
Trilinear coordinates locate a point in the plane by its relative distances from the extended sides of a reference triangle. If the point is outside the triangle, the perpendicular from the point to the sideline may meet the sideline outside the triangle—that is, not on the actual side of the triangle.
In a triangle, three intersection points, each of an external angle bisector with the opposite extended side, are collinear.
In a triangle, three intersection points, two of them between an interior angle bisector and the opposite side, and the third between the other exterior angle bisector and the opposite side extended, are collinear.