 | Edmund Stone - Mathematical instruments - 1746 - 62 pages
...there can be no Tangent of 90 Degrees, or a Quadrant, for then the Taogent will be infinitely . Jong. The Secant of an Arc is a right Line drawn From the Center of a Circle, through one End of the Arc it is the Secant of, till it meets the Tangent, raifed... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Logarithms - 1815 - 126 pages
...other end. Thus AD (Fig. 3.) is the tangent of the arc AG. 85. The SECANT of an arc, is a straight line drawn from the centre, through one end of the arc, and extended to the tangent which is drawn from the other end. Thus CD (lug. 3.) is the secant of the arc... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Measurement - 1815 - 388 pages
...other end. Thus AD (Fig. 3.) is the tangent of the arc AG. 85. The SECANT of an arc, is a straight line drawn from the centre, through one end of the arc, and extended to the tangent which is drawn from the other end. Thus CD (Fig. 3.) is the secant of the arc... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Geometry - 1824 - 440 pages
...other end. Thus AD (Fig. 3.) is the tangent of the arc AG. 85. The SECANT of an arc, is a straight line drawn from, the centre, through one end of the arc, and extended to the tangent which is drawn from the other end. Thus CD (Fig. 3.) is the secant of the arc... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - Education - 1828 - 426 pages
...arc of 4 5 degrees, is equal in lens'th to th.radius of the circle, of which the arc is a part. 21. The secant of an arc, is a right line drawn from the i;entre, through one end of the arc, until it unites with the tanwent. Thus:—K, I, C, is the secant... | |
 | Thomas Holliday - Surveying - 1838 - 404 pages
...perpendicular to the end of the diameter, just touching the arc, as B—C is the tangent of the arc B—H. A secant of an arc is a right line drawn from the centre of the circle through the circumference, and produced until it cuts the tangent, as C—A; thus C—A... | |
 | Abraham Crocker - 1841 - 490 pages
...the secant of that arc ; as AF is the tangent of the arc Aa. Be is the co-tangent of the same arc. A secant of an arc is a right line drawn from the centre through the extremity of the arc, and produced until it meets the tangent ; as CF. The co-secant is Co.* These... | |
 | Nathaniel Bowditch - 1846 - 864 pages
...that arc to a quadrant; thus HG is die tangent of the arc HS, or the cotangent of the arc AS, XXIV. The SECANT of an arc is a right line drawn from the centre through one end of the arc to meet the tangent drawn from the other end ; thus CT is the secant of the arc AS. XXV. The COSECANT... | |
 | John Boag - English language - 1848 - 744 pages
...yeometry, a line that cuts another, or divides it into parts. In trigonometry, the teoant of an arc iť u right line drawn from the centre through one end of the arc, and terminated by a tangent drawn through the other end. SCCEDE, se-sede', [L. se, and cedo, to go,] vi To withdraw from... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Logarithms - 1848 - 153 pages
...through the other end. Thus, AD is the tangent of the arc AG. 85. The SECANT of an arc is a straight line drawn from the centre, through one end of the arc, and extended to the tangent which is drawn from the other end. Thus CD is the secant of the arc AG. 80.... | |
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SECANT of an arc, is a straight line drawn from the centre, through one end of the arc, and extended to the tangent which is drawn from the other end. 
