 | George Washington Hull - Geometry - 1807 - 408 pages
...The sum of the areas of the lateral faces is called the lateral area. The perpendicular distance SO from the vertex to the plane of the base is called the altitude. 468. Pyramids are named from their bases. A Triangular Pyramid is a pyramid whose base is... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Geometry - 1824 - 440 pages
...of an oblique cone is also a circle, but is not perpendicular to the axis. The height of a cone is the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the plane of the base. In a right cone, it is the length of the axis. The slant-height of a right cone is the distance from... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Measurement - 1831 - 520 pages
...of an oblique cone is also a circle, but is not perpendicular to the axis. The height of a cone is the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the plane of the base. In a right cone, it is the length of the axis. The slant-height of a right cone is the distance from... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Logarithms - 1831 - 418 pages
...of an oblique cone is also a circle, but is not perpendicular to the axis. The height of a cone is the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the plane of the base. In a right cone, it is the length of the axis. The slant-height of a right cone is the distance from... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Geometry - 1838 - 416 pages
...of an oblique cone is also a circle, but is not perpendicular to the axis. The height of a cone is the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the plane of the base. In a right cone, it is the length of the axis. The slant-height of a right cone is the distance from... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Geometry - 1839 - 434 pages
...of an oblique cone is also a circle, but is not perpendicular to the axis. The height of a cone is the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the plane of the base. In a right cone, it is the length of the axis. The slant-height of a right cone is the distance from... | |
 | J. M. Scribner - Measurement - 1844 - 130 pages
...the verter, 6. The height of a cone is the fixed side of the triangle by which it is described, or the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the plane of the base ; as, JIB (fig. 2.) 7. The slant height of a right cone is the distance from the vertex to the circumference... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Logarithms - 1848 - 354 pages
...of an oblique cone is also a circle, but is not perpendicular to the axis. The height of a cone is the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the plane of the base. In a right cone, it is the length of the axis. The slant.height of a right cone is the distance from... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Geometry - 1851 - 418 pages
...of an oblique cone is also a circle, but is not perpendicular to the axis. The height of a cone is the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the plane of the base. In a right cone, it is the length of the axis. The slant-height of a right cone is the distance from... | |
 | Emerson Elbridge White - Arithmetic (Commercial), 1861 - 1861 - 348 pages
...besides being right, its base is a regular polygon. The altitude or height of a pyramid, or of a cone, is the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the plane of the base. The slant height of a regular pyramid or cone is the shortest distance from the vertex to the boundary... | |
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The height of a cone is the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the plane of the base. 
