 | John Playfair - Geometry - 1829 - 210 pages
...the circle about which the describing line revolves. 14. A cylinder is a solid figure described by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides, which remains fixed. 1 5. The axis of a cylinder is the fixed straight line about which the rectangle revolves. 16. The... | |
 | A. Bell - Conic sections - 1837 - 180 pages
...described by the revolving side containing the right angle. 13. A right cylinder is a solid described by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides, which remains fixed. The axis of the cylinder is the fixed line about which the rectangle revolves ; and its bases or ends are... | |
 | Euclid, James Thomson - Geometry - 1837 - 410 pages
...cone is the circle described by the leg which revolves. 24. A cylinder is a solid figure described by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides, which remains fixed. 25. The axis of a cylinder is the fixed straight line about which the rectangle revolves. 26. The bases,... | |
 | Commissioners of National Education in Ireland - Measurement - 1841 - 286 pages
...SOLIDS. 6. A cylinder i« a round solid, having circular ends, and may be conceived to be described by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides, which remains fixed. 7. A. pyramid is a solid, having a plane figure for its base ; and whose sides are triangles meeting... | |
 | Euclid, James Thomson - Geometry - 1845 - 382 pages
...cone is the circle described by the leg which revolves. 24. A cylinder is a solid figure described by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides, which remains fixed. 25. The axis of a cylinder is the fixed straight line about which the rectangle revolves. 26. The bases,... | |
 | William Vogdes - Arithmetic - 1847 - 324 pages
...and similar plane figures, and whose sides are parallelograms. 39. A cylinder is a solid described by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides, which remains fixed. 40. A cone is a solid formed by the revolution of a rightangled triangle about one of its legs, which... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Conic sections - 1849 - 252 pages
...triangles, etc. BOOK X. THE THREE ROUND BODIES. Definitions. 1. A cylinder is a solid described by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides, which remains fixed. The bases of the cylinder are the circles described by the two revolving opposite sides of the rectangle.... | |
 | Euclides - Geometry - 1853 - 334 pages
...triangle including the right angle, which revolves. XXI. A cylinder is the solid figure generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides, which remains fixed. XXII. The axis of a cylinder is the fixed straight line about which the generating rectangle revolves.... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Conic sections - 1858 - 256 pages
...triangles, etc. BOOK X. THE THREE ROUND BODIES. Definitions. 1. A cylinder is a solid described by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides, which remains fixed-. The bases of the cylinder are the circles described by the two revolving opposite sides of the rectangle.... | |
 | Benjamin Theophilus Moore - Measurement - 1863 - 320 pages
...surface, and the volume, of a circular cylinder. DEF. A circular cylinder is the solid generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides which remains fixed : this line is called the axis of the cylinder. From Lemma n. COr. 2, it will bo manifest that a circular... | |
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A Cylinder is a solid figure, described by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides, which remains fixed. 
