| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 814 pages
...called the radii of the circle. The circumference itself is also often called a circle. Fig. 20. 31. The DIAMETER of a circle is a straight line passing through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 32. An ARC of a circle is any part of its circumference.... | |
| Ireland commissioners of nat. educ - 1834 - 370 pages
...of each figure be equal, it is called a regular polygon ; but if unequal, an irregular polygon. 34. The Diameter of a circle is a straight line passing through the centre, and terminated by the circumference ; thus AB is the diameter of the circle. The diameter divides the circle... | |
| Luke Hebert - Industrial arts - 1835 - 816 pages
...straight line drawn from the vertex of a figure to the middle of the base. The axis of a circle or sphere is a straight line passing through the centre, and terminating at the circumference on the opposite sides. The axis of a cone is the line from the vertex to the centre of the base. The... | |
| Luke Hebert - Industrial arts - 1836 - 814 pages
...straight line drawn from the vertex of a figure to the middle of the base. The axis of a circle or sphere is a straight line passing through the centre, and terminating at the circumference on the opposite sides. The axis of a cone is the line from the vertex to the centre of the base. The... | |
| Commissioners of National Education in Ireland - Measurement - 1837 - 284 pages
...of each figure be equal, it is called a regular polygon ; but if unequal, an irregular polygon. 34. The Diameter of a circle is a straight line passing through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference ; thus AB is the diameter of the circle. The diameter divides... | |
| J. M. Scribner - Measurement - 1844 - 130 pages
...is equally distant from a certain point within, called the centre ; J1EBD (fig. 1) is a circle. 2. A Diameter of a circle is a straight line, passing through the centre and terminating at the circumference ; as AB (fig. 1.) 3. A Radius or Semi-Diameter is a straight line, extending from the centre to the... | |
| James S. Russell - Arithmetic - 1847 - 340 pages
...equally distant from the centre. 32. The circumference of a circle is the curved line enclosing it. 33. A diameter of a circle is a straight line passing through the centre and terminated by the- circumference. 34. A radius is a straight line extending from the centre o the circumference... | |
| Charles Davies - Geometry - 1850 - 218 pages
...called the centre. Thus, if all the points of the curve AEB are equally distant from the centre C, this curve will be the circumference of a circle....of the circumference, as AC, is called a quadrant. D D BC D BC B ~BC GEOMETRY. Definitions. 28. The circumference of a circle is used for the measurement... | |
| Charles Davies - Geometry - 1850 - 238 pages
...called the centre. Thus, if all the points of the curve AEB are equally distant from the centre C, this curve will be the circumference of a circle....a diameter. 27. One half of the circumference, as A C2? is called a semicircumferen.ee ; and one quarter of the circumference, as AC, is called a quadrant.... | |
| Thomas Urry Young - Education, Elementary - 1852 - 302 pages
...curved line, called its circumference, every part of which is at the same distance from the centre. The diameter of a circle is a straight line passing through the centre, and bounded by the circumference. The radius is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference.... | |
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