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secant

A straight line through two points on a curve; its slope is the average rate of change between those two points, not the curve's own changing slope.

Examples

For $f(x)=x^2$ , the secant through $(1,1)$ and $(2,4)$ has slope $(4-1)/(2-1)=3$ .