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" Two Circumferences are tangent to each other when they are tangent to a straight line at the same point. "
A Manual of Mechanical Drawing - Page 5
by Philip Devereux Johnston - 1903 - 149 pages
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A Treatise on Special Or Elementary Geometry

Edward Olney - Geometry - 1872 - 472 pages
...circumference, but not passing through the centre, as BC or AD, Fig. 28. 53. A Tangent to a circle is a straight line which touches the circumference, but does not intersect it, how far soever the line be produced. 34. A Secant is a straight line which intersects the circumference...
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A Treatise on Special Or Elementary Geometry

Edward Olney - 1872 - 270 pages
...the circle included between the chord and its arc, as A»iD, is a SEGMENT. 53. A Tangent to a circle is a straight line which touches the circumference, but does not intersect it, how far soever the line be produced. 54. A Secant is a straight line which intersects the circumference...
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Elements of Plane and Solid Geometry

George Albert Wentworth - Geometry - 1877 - 416 pages
...of the circle enclosed by two radii and the arc which they intercept, as A С B, Fig. 2. 170. DEF. A Tangent is a straight line which touches the circumference but does not intersect it, however far produced. The point in which the tangent touches the circumference is called the Point...
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Elements of Geometry

George Albert Wentworth - Geometry, Modern - 1881 - 266 pages
...of the circle enclosed by two radii and the arc which they intercept, as A С B, Fig. 2. 170. DEF. A Tangent is a straight line which touches the circumference but does not intersect it, however far produced. The point in which the tangent touches the circumference is called the Point...
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Elements of Plane Geometry

Franklin Ibach - Geometry - 1882 - 208 pages
...circle is the portion enclosed by an arc and the radii drawn to its extremities; as, OFM. B E 177. A Tangent is a straight line which touches the circumference but does not intersect it; as, ABC. The common point B is called the point of contact, or the point of tangency. 178. A Secant...
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Elementary Geometry: Including Plane, Solid, and Spherical Geometry, with ...

Edward Olney - Geometry - 1883 - 352 pages
...the circle included between the chord and its arc, as A»wD, is a Segment. 30. A Tangent to a circle is a straight line which touches the circumference, but does not intersect it, how far soever the line be produced. Two circles which tonch each other in but one point are said to...
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A Text-book of Geometry

George Albert Wentworth - Geometry - 1888 - 272 pages
...A secant is a straight line which intersects the circumference in two points ; as, AD, Fig. 1. 213. A tangent is a straight line which touches the circumference but does not intersect it ; as, BC, Fig. 1. The point in which the tangent touches the circumference is called the point of contact,...
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Elements of Mechanical Drawing

Gardner Chace Anthony - Mechanical drawing - 1894 - 190 pages
...straight line which has its extremities in the circumference, and joins the ends of an arc, as D E. A Tangent is a straight line which touches the circumference, but does not intersect it, as F H. It is perpendicular to the radius at the point of tangency. A Segment of a circle is a portion...
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Plane and Solid Geometry

James Howard Gore - Geometry - 1898 - 232 pages
...portion of the circle enclosed by two radii and the arc which they intercept, as ACS, Fig. 2. 137. A Tangent is a straight line which touches the circumference, but does not intercept it, however far produced. The point in which the tangent touches the circumference is called...
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Practical Mechanical Drawing and Machine Design, Self Taught ...

Charles Westinghouse - Machine design - 1906 - 168 pages
...the whole arc and the chord of half the arc are given— Fig. 48. H " Arc DHE= SDH— DE GH Fig. 48. (A Tangent is a straight line which touches the circumference...tangent touches the circle is called the Point of Tangency. Two Circumferences are tangent to each other when they are tangent to a straight line at...
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