 | Thomas Grainger Hall - Trigonometry - 1848 - 192 pages
...SPHERICAL TRIGONOMETRY. SPHERICAL TRIGONOMETRY. CHAPTER I. 1. A SPHERE is a solid bounded by a curve surface, every point of which is equidistant from a point within it, called the centre. 2. The radius is a straight line drawn from the centre to any point in the circumference. Any straight... | |
 | John Brocklesby - Astronomy - 1855 - 394 pages
...very oval. 1. Eccentric, from ex out of , and centrum centre, (Latin) out of the centre. 19. A SPHERE. 'A sphere is a solid, bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre; every line passing through this centre, and... | |
 | William Latham Bevan - Geography - 1869 - 698 pages
...chiefly from Astronomy and Geometry. The following need explanation : — Sphere, a body terminated by a curved surface, every point of which is equidistant from a point inside it, named its centre. Spheroid, a body approximating to a sphere, but not a perfect sphere.... | |
 | Alfred Hiley - 1871 - 184 pages
...is 24 ft. throughout. Find the cubic contents. XXV. THE SPHERE. Definitions. — A sphere or globe is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a certain point within the sphere, called the centre. The radius of a sphere is... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Astronomy - 1874 - 332 pages
...ellipse will be |, or .66+. 36. A Solid is a magnitude that has length, breadth, and thickness. 37. A Sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. A Hemisphere is half a sphere. A Diameter of... | |
 | Hugo Reid - 1874 - 276 pages
...sphere of the heavens. PART I. THE SPHERE OF THE HEAVENS. 1. Definitions. 8. A Circle is a curved line, every point of which is equidistant from a point within it, called the Centre. Considered with respect to the enclosed surface, which it bounds, it is often called the Circumference.... | |
 | Edwin Pliny Seaver, George Augustus Walton - Arithmetic - 1878 - 380 pages
...slant height. Thus, in Fig. 30, the line op indicates the slant height of the frustum. 724. A globe, or sphere, is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. 31 NOTE. A circle which divides a sphere into... | |
 | Alfred Hiley - 1879 - 228 pages
...24 ft. throughout. Fiud the cubic contents. 128 XXV. THE SPHERE. Definitions. — A sphere or globe is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a certain point within the sphere, called the centre. The radius of a sphere is... | |
 | Joseph Ray - Arithmetic - 1880 - 420 pages
...solid which remains when a portion having the vertex is cut off by a plane parallel to the base. 11. A Sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is at the same distance from a point within, called the center. The diameter of a sphere is a straight... | |
 | Edwin Pliny Seaver - Arithmetic - 1881 - 366 pages
...Thus, in Fig. 30, the line op indicates the slant height of the frustum. Fig 81 724. A globe, or sphwe, is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. NOTE. A circle which divides a sphere into... | |
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A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center. 
