| L. Ring - 1831 - 200 pages
...Cancer, und the meridian of 12° east longitude. USE OF THE GLOBES. A GLOBE or SPHERE is a round body, every point of which is equally distant from a point called the centre. There are two sorts of Globes, the Terrestiial and Celestial ; the former is supposed to represent... | |
| John Fair Stoddard - Arithmetic - 1852 - 320 pages
...NONAGOJ* ; that of t«i, a DECAGON ; that of twelve, a DODECAGON, &-i•.. A CIRCLE is a plane, terminated by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, culled the center. The curved line is called the circumference The DIAMETER of a circle is... | |
| Charles Davies, William Guy Peck - Electronic book - 1855 - 592 pages
...except the additional fact, that two straight lines cannot include a space. A circle is a portion of a plane bounded by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. 1 The curve is called the circumference, or in common language, the circle.... | |
| Charles Davies, William Guy Peck - Mathematics - 1855 - 628 pages
...pupils. CIR'CLE. [L. circulas, from circuí, anything of a round form]. A portion of a plane AEBF. bounded by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre. The bounding line is called the circumference. The term circle, is often... | |
| Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1856 - 450 pages
...and 64 chains, and the perpendicular distance between them 52 chains ? 337. A circle is a portion of a plane bounded by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a certain point within, called the centre. The curved line AEBD is called the circumference ; the point... | |
| John Fair Stoddard - Arithmetic - 1856 - 312 pages
...NONAOON ; that of ten, a DECAGON ; that of twelve, a DODECAGON, &c. A CIRCLE is a plane, terminated by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The curved line is called the circumference. The DIAMETER of a circle is... | |
| Thomas Solly - Free will and determinism - 1856 - 320 pages
...conceptions in the above instance united in the conception of the cause; the flight through the air in a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a certain imaginary fixed point and an imaginary straight line, are the representations united in the... | |
| Thomas Solly - Free will and determinism - 1856 - 304 pages
...conceptions in the above instance united in the conception of the cause; the flight through the air in a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a certain imaginary fixed point and an imaginary straight line, are the representations united in the... | |
| William E. Bell - Bridge building - 1857 - 250 pages
...angles are those which have like positions in similar polygons. 34. The circumference of a circle is a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. 35. The circle is the surface bounded by the circumference. 36. A radius... | |
| William E. Bell - Bridges - 1859 - 226 pages
...angles are those which have like positions in similar polygons. 34. The circumference of a circle is a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. 35. The circle is the surface bounded by the circumference. 36. A radius... | |
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