 | Jedidiah Morse - Geography - 1814 - 696 pages
...lines, which meet each other. Circle. A circle is a regular figure, bounded by a curve line, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the centre. The circumference of a circle is the curve line, which bounds it. The radius of a circle is the distance... | |
 | Sidney Edwards Morse - Atlases - 1822 - 706 pages
...lines, which meet each other. Circle. A circle is a regular figure, bounded by a curve line, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the centre. The circumference of a circle is the curve line, which bounds it. The radius of a circle is a straight... | |
 | Alexander Ingram - Mathematics - 1830 - 458 pages
...compute the sides and angles of spherical triangles. A SPHERE is a solid bounded by a curve surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the centre. A sphere may be conceived to be generated by a semicircle revolving about its diameter. The axis or... | |
 | Alexander Ingram - 1851 - 202 pages
...ends, and its upright sides trapezoids. 9. A SPHERE, or GLOBE, is a solid bounded by a curve surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within it called the centre. NOTE. A Sphere may be conceived to be generated by a semicircle revolving about its diameter. < 10.... | |
 | Daniel Leach - Arithmetic - 1851 - 280 pages
...MENSURATION OF SOLIDS. SECTION XLI. 374. A SPHERE, or globe, is a solid, bounded by a curve surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the centre. 37<5« The diameter, or axis, of a sphere is a straight Jine passing through the centre and both ends,... | |
 | Daniel Leach - Arithmetic - 1853 - 622 pages
...MENSURATION OF SOLIDS. SECTION XLI. k 374. A SPHERE, or globe, is a solid, bounded by a curve surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the centre. 375. The diameter, or axis, of a sphere is a straight line passing through the centre and both ends,... | |
 | John Williams (of Lancaster, O.) - English language - 1860 - 410 pages
...greater than the breadth. 14. Of Curvilinear Figures. A CIRCLE is a plain figure bounded by a curve line called the circumference, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center. An ELLIPSE has the form of a flattened circle, and may be formed / by passing •... | |
 | William Keane (gardener.) - 1861 - 252 pages
...figure bounded on all sides by a continued curve line called the circumference or periphery, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it called the centre. 5. The radius of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre to the circumference. 6. A diameter... | |
 | William Frothingham Bradbury - Plane trigonometry - 1864 - 324 pages
...quadrilateral Thus, IJ is the base and LY the altitude of IJ K L. 33. A CIRCLE is a plane bounded by a curved line, called the circumference, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre ; as ABD E. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360... | |
 | Eli Todd Tappan - Geometry, Modern - 1864 - 288 pages
...circle. Hence, the following definitions : A CIRCLE is a portion of a plane bounded by a line called a CIRCUMFERENCE, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the CENTER. 146. Theorem. — A circumference is curved throughout. For a straight line can... | |
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A circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line called the circumference, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center, Fig. 
