| Royal Military Academy, Woolwich - Mathematics - 1853 - 400 pages
...is the extremity of anything. 14. A figure is that which is enclosed by one or more boundaries. 15. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line,...figure to the circumference are equal to one another. 16. And this point is called the centre of the circle. 17. A diameter of a circle is a straight line... | |
| Euclides - Geometry - 1853 - 178 pages
...any thing. XIV. A figure is that which is enclosed by one or more boundaries. XV. A circle is a plain figure contained by one line, which is called the...figure to the circumference, are equal to one another. XVI. And this point is called the centre of the circle. XVII. A diameter of a circle is a straight... | |
| Euclides - Geometry - 1853 - 334 pages
...plane figure is to be understood. XV. A circle is defined to be a plane figure, contained by one line, such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure, to meet this one line, are equal to one another. XVI. This one line is called the circumference of the... | |
| William Somerville Orr - Science - 1854 - 534 pages
...circle is a plane figure enclosed by one line, which is called the circumference of the circle : it is such, that all straight lines, drawn from a certain...figure to the circumference, are equal to one another. This point is called the centre of the circle. And any line drawn from the centre to the circumference... | |
| Euclides - 1855 - 262 pages
...solid figures, as well as to plane figures. XV. A circle is a plane figure contained [or, bounded] by one line, which is called the circumference, and...figure to the circumference, are equal to one another. The circumference of a circle is its boundary. The space contained within the boundary, is called the... | |
| John Playfair - Euclid's Elements - 1856 - 346 pages
...one an' gle at a point, it may be expressed by a letter placed at that point ; as the ' angle at E.' 7. When a straight line standing on another straight...And this point is called the centre of the circle. 1 3. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by... | |
| Robert Rawson - 1856 - 200 pages
...the extremity of any thing." xrv. A figure is that which is inclosed by one or more boundaries. XV. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line,...figure to the circumference, are equal to one another. XVL And this point is called the centre of the circle. XVH. A diameter of a circle is a straight line... | |
| 1856 - 422 pages
...is a plane figure contained or bounded by a curve line, called the circumference or periphery, which is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain...within the figure to the circumference are equal to each other. This point is called the centre of the circle, and each of the straight Unes is called... | |
| William Pease - 1856 - 108 pages
...frequently in mathematical drawings, and besides, is most simple of construction. An Ellipse, like a circle, is a " plane figure, contained by one line, which is called its circumference ;" it has two diameters, called respectively, the transverse and conjugate ; the... | |
| William Ezra Worthen - Architectural drawing - 1857 - 632 pages
...regular polygons ; of which figs. 11-14 are examples, annexed to which are their respective designations. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line,...figure to the circumference, are equal to one another. And this point is called the centre of the circle. The term circle is very generally used for the circumference,... | |
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