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+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.lucene.spatial.geometry.shape;
+
+
+/**
+ * Common set of operations available on 2d shapes.
+ *
+ * <p><font color="red"><b>NOTE:</b> This API is still in
+ * flux and might change in incompatible ways in the next
+ * release.</font>
+ */
+public interface Geometry2D {
+ /**
+ * Translate according to the vector
+ * @param v
+ */
+ public void translate(Vector2D v);
+
+ /**
+ * Does the shape contain the given point
+ * @param p
+ */
+ public boolean contains(Point2D p);
+
+ /**
+ * Return the area
+ */
+ public double area();
+
+ /**
+ * Return the centroid
+ */
+ public Point2D centroid();
+
+ /**
+ * Returns information about how this shape intersects the given rectangle
+ * @param r
+ */
+ public IntersectCase intersect(Rectangle r);
+
+}