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AB² ABCD AC² adjacent angles altitude apothem approach the limit axis base and altitude BC² bisector bisects centre chord circle circumference circumscribed coincide cone of revolution Converse of Prop diagonals diameter diedral angle distance Draw line equal respectively equally distant equilateral equivalent exterior angle faces Find the area frustum Given line given point Hence homologous homologous sides hypotenuse intersecting isosceles triangle lateral area lateral edges line drawn line joining middle point number of sides parallel parallelogram parallelopiped perimeter perpendicular plane MN polyedral polyedron prism Prove pyramid quadrilateral radii radius rectangle regular inscribed regular polygon rhombus right angles right triangle segment side BC similar slant height spherical polygon spherical triangle square tangent tetraedron THEOREM trapezoid triangle ABC triangular prism triedral vertex vertices volume Whence
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Page 58 - The straight line joining the middle points of two sides of a triangle is parallel to the third side, and equal to half of it.
Page 322 - A right circular cylinder may be generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides as an axis.
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Page 336 - A spherical polygon is a portion of the surface of a sphere bounded by three or more arcs of great circles. The...
Page 151 - If one leg of a right triangle is double the other, the perpendicular from the vertex of the right angle to the hypotenuse divides it into segments which are to each other as 1 to 4.
Page 328 - A sphere is a solid bounded by a surface all points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre.
Page 205 - S' denote the areas of two © whose radii are R and R', and diameters D and D', respectively. Then, | = "* § = ££ = £• <§337> That is, the areas of two circles are to each other as the squares of their radii, or as the squares of their diameters.
Page 73 - A chord is a straight line joining the extremities of an arc ; as AB.
Page 202 - The circumferences of two circles are to each other as their radii. Given C and C" the circumferences of two © whose radii are R and R', respectively.