 | Robert Simson - Trigonometry - 1806 - 518 pages
...the, figure contained by a .diameter and the part of the circumference cut off by the diameter. XIX. " A segment of a circle is the figure contained by a straight line " and the circumference it cuts off." XX. Rectilineal figures are those which are contained by straight lines.... | |
 | John Playfair - Euclid's Elements - 1806 - 320 pages
...be farther from the centre. J Book III. B. An arch of a circle is any part of the circumference. V. A segment of a circle is the figure contained by a straight line and the arch which it cuts off. VI. An angle in a segment is the angle contained by two straight lines drawn... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 722 pages
...the straight line on which the greater perpendicular falls, is said to be farther from thd centre. 6. A segment of a circle is the figure contained by a straight line and the circumference it cuts off. 7. The angle of a segment is that wluch i» contained by the straight line... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1814 - 568 pages
...especially at the beginning of the Elements. The alterations I would propose are as follow : Def. 18. A segment of a circle is the figure contained by a straight line, and the circumference it cuts off. 19. If the straight line be a diameter, the segment is called a semi-circle.... | |
 | Euclides - 1816 - 528 pages
...which the greater perpendicular falls, is said to be further from the centre. BouK III. VI. *"" "v^.1 A segment of a circle is the figure contained by a straight line and the circumference it cuts off. VII. " The angle of a segment is that which is contained by the " straight... | |
 | Euclid, John Playfair - Circle-squaring - 1819 - 348 pages
...falls, is said to be farther from the centre. B. An arch of a circle is any part of the circumference. A segment of a circle is the figure contained by a straight line, and the arch which it cuts ofl'. VI. An iingle in' a segment is the angle contained by two straight line* drawn... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 740 pages
...the straight line on which the greater perpendicular fails, is said to be farther from the centre. 6. A segment of a circle is the figure contained by a straight line and Ihe circumference it cutķ off. 7. The angle of a sfpment is that which i» Contained by the straight... | |
 | Peter Nicholson - Mathematics - 1825 - 372 pages
...semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter and the part of a circumference cut off by the diameter. 19. " A segment of a circle is the figure contained by a straight line, and the circumference it cuts off." 20. Rectilineal figures are those which are contained by straight lines.... | |
 | George Lees - 1826 - 266 pages
...straight line on which the greater perpendicular falls, is said to be farther from the centre. V. — A segment of a circle is the figure contained by '-a straight line and the arc which it cuts off. Book II. VII. — And an angle is said to insist or stand upon the arch intercepted... | |
 | Robert Simson - Trigonometry - 1827 - 513 pages
...the figure contained by a diameter and the part of the circumference cut off by the diameter. XIX. " A segment of a circle is the figure contained by a " straight line, and the circumference it cuts off." XX. Rectilineal figures are those which are contained by straight lines.... | |
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A segment of a circle, is the figure contained by a straight line and the circumference which it cuts off. 
