 | Robert Simson - Trigonometry - 1775 - 534 pages
...circumference, are equal to one another : XVI. And this point is called the centre of the circle. rXVII. A diameter of a circle is a ftraight line drawn through the see NI centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. XVIII. A femicircle is the figure contained... | |
 | Euclid - Euclid's Elements - 1789 - 296 pages
...circle, is a right line drawn from the centre to the circumference. 2. A diameter of a circle, is a right line drawn through the centre and terminated both ways by the circumference. 3. An arc of a circle, is any part of its periphery, or circumference. O 4. The chord, or fubtenfe,... | |
 | John McGregor (teacher of mathematics.) - Mathematics - 1792 - 532 pages
...circumference. 34. The radius of a circle is the diilance between the centre and circumference. 3-5. The diameter of a circle is a ftraight line drawn through...centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. A is the centre. AB the radius. CD the diameter. Note, The diameter is equal to twice the radius. 36.... | |
 | Euclid, John Playfair - Euclid's Elements - 1795 - 462 pages
...circumference, are equal to one another. XII. And this point is called the centre of the circle. XIII. A diameter of a circle is a ftraight line drawn through the centref and terminated both ways by the circumference. XIV. A femicircle is the figure contained by... | |
 | Alexander Ingram - Trigonometry - 1799 - 374 pages
...Any ftraight line drawn from the center to the circumference of a circle, is called a Radius. XVII. A diameter of a circle is a ftraight line drawn through...centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. XVIII. A femicircle is the figure contained by a diameter and the part of the circumference cut off... | |
 | John Playfair, Euclid - Circle-squaring - 1804 - 468 pages
...circumference, are equal to one another. XII. And this point is palled the centre of the circle. XIII. A diameter of a circle is a ftraight line drawn through...centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. XIV, A femicircle is the figure cpntained by a diameter and the part of the circumference cut off by... | |
 | Robert Simson - Trigonometry - 1806 - 546 pages
...XVI. And this point is called the centre of the circle. XVH. A diameter of • circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. , XVIII. A semicircle is the, figure contained by a .diameter and the part of the circumference cut... | |
 | Edward Edwards - Perspective - 1806 - 414 pages
...equal to one another. The point from which fuch lines are drawn, is called the center of the circle. A 'diameter of a circle, is a ftraight line drawn through the center, and terminated both ways by the circumference. A radius is any right line, drawn from the center... | |
 | John Playfair - Mathematics - 1806 - 320 pages
...another. XII. And this point is called the centre of the circle. XHL A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. XIV. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter and the part of the circumference cut off by... | |
 | John Aikin - Geography - 1807 - 442 pages
...equally distant from a point within the figure called the centre. 2. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre and terminated both ways by the circumference. 3. An arc of a circle is any part of the circumference. 4. The circumference of every circle is supposed... | |
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A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 
