 | Charles Davies - Navigation - 1852 - 412 pages
...designate a straight line ; and the word curve, a curve line. ELEMENTS OF SURVEYING. [BOOK I. 9. A PLANE is a surface, such, that if any two of its points be joined by a straight line, such line will be wholly in the surface. 10. Every surface, which is not a plane surface, or composed... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1852 - 436 pages
...curve, a curve line. 8. A SURFACE is that which has length and breadth without thickness. 9. A PLANE is a surface, such, that if any two of its points be joined by a straight line, such. line will be wholly in the surface. 10. Every surface, which is not a plane surface, or composed... | |
 | Charles Davies - Geometry - 1854 - 436 pages
...breadth without thickness. See Dav1es' Ix'gic aud Ut1l1ty of Mathemat1cs. J 1. 14 GEOMETRY. 9. A PLANE is a surface, such, that if any two of its points be joined by a straight line, such line will be wholly in the surface. 10. Every surface, which is not a plane surface, or composed... | |
 | Charles Davies - Navigation - 1854 - 446 pages
...and the word curve, a. curve line. 8. A SURFACE is that which has length and breadth 9. A PLANE is a surface, such, that if any two of its points be joined by a straight line, such line will be wholly in the surface. 10. Every surface, which is not a plane surface, or composed... | |
 | Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox - Rifle practice - 1859 - 308 pages
...multiply this by half of the radius, or 7 : the product is 616 square feet. PLANES AND PROJECTIONS. A plane has already been defined to be a surface, such that, taking two points in it at pleasure, and joining them by a straight line, that line will lie wholly... | |
 | William E. Bell - Bridges - 1859 - 226 pages
...12. A surface has length and breadth without height or thickness. 13. A plane is a surface, in which, if any two of its points be joined by a straight line, that line will lie wholly on the surface. 14. A solid, or body, is that which combines the three dimensions... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Geometry - 1860 - 470 pages
...•everal straig ^pe is to be understood Wt which has i is a surface understood, . _ |fl p^tf- *'~ if any two of its points be joined by a straight line, every point of this line will lie in the surface. 10. A Curved Surface is one which is neither a plane,... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1863 - 464 pages
...points in 6 plane, it wilt lie wholly in that plane. For, by definition, a plane is a surface suun, that if any two of its points be joined by a straight line, that line will lie wholly in the surface (BI, D. 8). Cor. Through any point of a plane, an infinite... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Geometry - 1868 - 276 pages
...Superficies is that which has extension in length and breadth only. 9. A Plane Surface, or a Plane, is a surface such that if any two of its points be joined by a straight line, every poiut of this line will lie in the surface. 10. A Curved Surface is one which is neither a plane,... | |
 | Charles Davies - Geometry - 1872 - 464 pages
...has two of its points in a plane, it will lie wholly in that plane,. For, by definition, a plane is a surface such, that if any two of its points be joined by a straight line, that line will He wholly in the surface (BI, D. 8). Cor. Through any point of a plane, an infinite... | |
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A PLANE is a surface, such, that if any two of its points be joined by a straight line, such. 
