| Charles Butler - Mathematics - 1814 - 528 pages
...circumference. 73. After Def. 17. add the following, which is in continual use, viz. >fa radius, or semidiameter of a circle, is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference." . 74. Def. 18, 19. Any part of a circle cut off by a straight line, is called a segment of a circle;... | |
| John Gummere - Surveying - 1814 - 398 pages
...from a certain point C within the circle, and this point is called the centre, Fig. 16. 34. The radius of a circle is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference, as CB, Fig. 1735. The diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated... | |
| Sidney Edwards Morse - Atlases - 1822 - 706 pages
...it, called the centre. The circumference of a circle is the curve line, which bounds it. The radius of a circle is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference ; and the diameter is a straight line drawn through the centre from one side of the circumference to... | |
| Sidney Edwards Morse - Atlases - 1822 - 706 pages
...it, called the centre. The circumference of a circle is the curve line, which bounds it. The radius of a circle is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference ; and the diameter is a straight line drawn through the centre from one side of the circumference to... | |
| John Imison - Art - 1822 - 488 pages
...where equally distant from a point E within the circle, which is called the centre. 33. The radius of a circle is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference, as E F. (Fig. 18.) The radius is the opening of the compass when a circle is described ; and consequently... | |
| Robertson Buchanan - Machinery - 1823 - 440 pages
...circumference, are equal to one another, and this point is called the centre of the circle. 57- The radius of a circle, is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference. The word radii is used, when more than one such line is spoken of. 58. The diameter of a circle, is a straight... | |
| John Nicholson - Machinery - 1825 - 838 pages
...where equally distant from a point E within the circle, which is called the centre. 44. The radius of a circle is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference, as EF (Fig. \%}. The radius is the opening of the compass when a circle is described ; and consequently... | |
| Jacob Abbot Cummings - Cartography - 1825 - 216 pages
...illustrated by drawing a silk handkerchief over a wire circle, which will thus represent the plane. The diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre from one «ide of the circumference to the other. -j A semidiameter, or radius, is half of (he diameter,... | |
| Thomas Hornby (land surveyor.) - Surveying - 1827 - 318 pages
...every where equi-distant from a point within it called the centre; as the circle AB D. 90. The radius of a circle is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference ; as the line A C. Hence, the radius is the line or distance that describes the circumference. i 31.... | |
| George Crabb - Industrial arts - 1830 - 380 pages
...circumference to the other, through the centre, so as to divide it into two equal parts. The radius of a circle is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference : the segment of a circle is a part cut off by a line called the chord. The circumference of every circle... | |
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