| Eli Todd Tappan - Geometry, Modern - 1864 - 288 pages
...those plane figures which inclose an area ; and, first, of those whose boundaries are straight lines. A POLYGON is a portion of a plane bounded by straight lines. The straight lines are the sides of the polygon. The PERIMETER of a polygon is its boundary, or the... | |
| Eli Todd Tappan - Geometry - 1868 - 438 pages
...those plane figures which inclose an area ; and, first, of those whose boundaries are straight lines. A POLYGON is a portion of a plane bounded by straight lines. The straight lines are the sides of the polygon. The PERIMETER of a polygon is its boundary, or the... | |
| William Chauvenet - Geometry - 1871 - 380 pages
...-\- DC > AC; or, putting DB for its equal DC, AD + DB > AC; or AB > A C. POLYGONS. 93. Definitions. A polygon is a portion of a plane bounded by straight lines; as ABCDE. The bounding lines are the sides; their sum is the perimeter of the polygon. The angles which... | |
| William Chauvenet - Geometry - 1872 - 382 pages
...AD + DC > AC; or, putting DB for its equal DC, AD + DB > AC; or AB > AC. POLYGONS. 93. Definitions. A polygon is a portion of a plane bounded by straight lines; as ABCDE. The bounding lines are the sides; their sum is the perimeter of the polygon. The angles which... | |
| Eli Todd Tappan - Geometry - 1873 - 288 pages
...those plane figures which inclose an area ; and, first, of those whose boundaries are straight lines. A POLYGON is a portion of a plane bounded by straight lines. The straight lines are the sides of the polygon. The PERIMETER of a polygon is its boundary, or the... | |
| Edward Olney - 1872 - 270 pages
...diameter and the other 3. What was the difference in the rates paid ? SECTION VIII. OF POLYGONS. 115. A Polygon is a portion of a plane bounded by straight lines. The word polygon means many-angled; so that with strict propriety we might limit the definition to... | |
| William Guy Peck - Conic sections - 1876 - 412 pages
...shown to be false, from which it follows that the one to be demonstrated must be true. Definitions. 31. A polygon is a portion of a plane bounded by straight lines ; the bounding lines are called sides ; the points in which the sides meet are called vertices ; and... | |
| Edward Olney - Geometry - 1877 - 272 pages
...other 3. What was the difference in the rates paid ? , , vr (~r- . • y lines. X SECTION VIII. OF POLYGONS. . A Polygon is a portion of a plane bounded by straight The word polygon means many-angled ; so that with strict propriety we might limit the definition to... | |
| Edward Olney - Geometry - 1879 - 502 pages
...diameter and the other 3. What was the difference in the rates paid ? SECTION VIIL OF POLYGONS. * 115. A Polygon is a portion of a plane bounded by straight lines. The word polygon means many-angled ; so that with strict propriety we might limit the definition to... | |
| Joseph Ficklin - Arithmetic - 1881 - 412 pages
...of a ball is curved. 607. A Plane Figure is a figure all parts of which are in the same plane. 608. A Polygon is a portion of a plane bounded by straight lines. The Perimeter of a polygon is the distance around it, and is equal to the sum of all its sides. A polygon... | |
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