 | Edward Olney - Geometry - 1872 - 472 pages
...perpendicular to its bases. An Oblique prism is a prism whose lateral edges are oblique to its bases. 459. A Regular Prism is a right prism whose bases are regular polygons; whence its faces are equal rectangles. 460. The Altitude of a prism is the perpendicular distance between... | |
 | Edward Olney - 1872 - 270 pages
...perpendicular to its bases. An Oblique prism is a prism whose lateral edges are oblique to its bases. 459. A Regular Prism is a right prism whose bases are regular polygons; whence its faces are equal rectangles. 460. The Altitude of a prism is the perpendicular distance between... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1874 - 500 pages
...to the planes of the bases. In this case, any lateral edge ia equal to the altitude. 5. An OBLIQUB PRISM is one whose lateral edges are oblique to the planes of the bases. In this case, any lateral edge is g1 eater than the altitude. 6. Prisms are named from the... | |
 | Aaron Schuyler - Geometry - 1876 - 384 pages
...are oblique to its bases. Any lateral edge of an oblique prism is greater than the altitude. (?) 10. A regular prism is a right prism whose bases are regular polygons. 11. Prisms are triangular, quadrangular, pentangular, . . . according as their bases are triangles,... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Conic sections - 1877 - 458 pages
...bases. 7. A right prism is one whose lateral edges are all perpendicular to the planes of its bases. An oblique prism is one whose lateral edges are oblique to the planes of its bases. 8. A prism is triangular, quadrangular, pentagonal, hexagonal, etc., according as its base is a triangle,... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - Geometry - 1877 - 416 pages
...bases. 512. DEF. An Oblique prism is a prism whose lateral edges are oblique to its bases. 513. DEF. A Regular prism is a right prism whose bases are regular polygons, and hence its lateral faces are equal rectangles. 514. DEF. The Altitude of a prism is the perpendicular... | |
 | William Henry Harrison Phillips - Geometry - 1878 - 236 pages
...lateral faces. DEF. 4. A right prism is one whose lateral edges are perpendicular to the bases. DEF. 5. An oblique prism is one whose lateral edges are oblique to the bases. ELEMENTS OF GEOMETRY. [BOOK VI. \ III. DEF. 1. A parallelepiped is a prism whose bases are parallelograms.... | |
 | Simon Newcomb - Geometry - 1881 - 418 pages
...Def. An oblique prism is one in which the lateral faces are not perpendicular to the bases. 679. Def. A regular prism is a right prism whose bases are regular polygons. THEOREM I. 680. The lateral edges of a prism are equal and parallel, and make equal angles with the... | |
 | Edward Olney - Geometry - 1883 - 352 pages
...perpendicular to its bases. An Oblique Prism is a prism whose lateral edges are oblique to its bases. 562. A Regular Prism is a right prism whose bases are regular polygons ; whence its faces are equal rectangles. 563. The Altitude of a prism is the perpendicular distance... | |
 | William Chauvenet, William Elwood Byerly - Geometry - 1887 - 331 pages
...prism is one whose lateral edges are perpendicular to the planes of its faces (VI., Proposition XI.) In a right prism, any lateral edge is equal to the...plane GK, not parallel to its base, the portion of ths prism included between the base ari this plane, namely, ABCDEj is called a truncated prism. 10.... | |
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A right prism is a prism •whose lateral edges are perpendicular to the planes of the bases. 
