 | Jeremiah Day - Geometry - 1824 - 440 pages
...vertex. The base of an oblique cone is also a circle, but is not perpendicular to the axis. The height of a cone is the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the plane of the base. In a right cone, it is the length of the axis. The slant-height of a right cone is the distance from... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Logarithms - 1831 - 418 pages
...vertex. The base of an oblique cone is also a circle, but is not perpendicular to the axis. The height of a cone is the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the plane of the base. In a right cone, it is the length of the axis. The slant-height of a right cone is the distance from... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Measurement - 1831 - 394 pages
...vertex. The base of an oblique cone is also a circle, but is not perpendicular to the axis. The height of a cone is the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the plane of the base. In a right cone, it is the length of the axis. The slant-height of a right cone is the distance from... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Geometry - 1838 - 416 pages
...vertex. The base of an oblique cone is also a circle, but is not perpendicular to the axis. The height of a cone is the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the plane of the base. In a right cone, it is the length of the axis. The slant-height of a right cone is the distance from... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Geometry - 1839 - 434 pages
...vertex. The base of an oblique cone is also a circle, but is not perpendicular to the axis. The height of a cone is the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the plane of the base. In a right cone, it is the length of the axis. The slant-height of a right cone is the distance from... | |
 | J. M. Scribner - Measurement - 1844 - 130 pages
...the verter, 6. The height of a cone is the fixed side of the triangle by which it is described, or the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the plane of the base ; as, JIB (fig. 2.) 7. The slant height of a right cone is the distance from the vertex to the circumference... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Logarithms - 1848 - 354 pages
...vertex. The base of an oblique cone is also a circle, but is not perpendicular to the axis. The height of a cone is the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the plane of the base. In a right cone, it is the length of the axis. The slant.height of a right cone is the distance from... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Geometry - 1851 - 418 pages
...vertex. The base of an oblique cone is also a circle, but is not perpendicular to the axis. The height of a cone is the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the plane of the base. In a right cone, it is the length of the axis. The slant-height of a right cone is the distance from... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1857 - 452 pages
...vertex. The slant height of a cone is a line drawn from the vertex to the circumference of the base. 654. The altitude or height of a pyramid or of a cone is a line drawn from the vertex perpendicular -to the plane of the base. D 655. The frustum of a solid... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1858 - 458 pages
...vertex. The slant height of a cone is a line drawn from the vertex to the circumference of the base. 654. The altitude or height of a pyramid or of a cone is a line drawn from the vertex perpendicular to the plane of the base. D 655. The frustum of a solid... | |
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The altitude of a cone is the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the base. 
