 | Anna Cabot Lowell - Astronomy - 1850 - 378 pages
...curved surface, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. The radius of a sphere is a straight line drawn from the centre to a point in the surface ; the diameter, or axis, is a line passing through the centre, and terminated... | |
 | Hugo Reid - 1850 - 156 pages
...circumference of the circle, passing through the centre to the opposite side. 55. The RADIUS of a circle, or of a sphere, is a straight line drawn from the centre to the surface of the sphere. or circumference of the circle. 56. All radii of the same circle, or same... | |
 | Alexander Stewart - 1850 - 480 pages
...cireumference of the cirele, passing through the centre to the opposite side. The RADIUS of a cirele, or of a sphere, is a straight line drawn from the centre to the surface of the sphere, or cireumference of the cirele. All radii of the same cirele, or same sphere,... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1852 - 436 pages
...the sphere, any circular sector, as DCF) or FCAj describes a solid, called a spherical sector. 11. The radius of a sphere is a straight line drawn from the centre to any point of the surface ; the diameter or axis is a line passing through the centre, and terminated, on both... | |
 | James B. Dodd - Arithmetic - 1852 - 410 pages
...described by revolving a semicircle ACB about its diameter AB — this diameter remaining unmoved. The radius of a sphere is a straight line drawn from the centre to any point of the surface ; and a diameter is a straight line passing through the centre, and terminated b'oth... | |
 | James B. Dodd - 1853 - 398 pages
...bounded by a curved surface, all points of which are equidistant from a point within called the centre. The radius of a sphere is a straight line drawn from the centre to any point of the surface; and a. diameter is a straight line passing through the centre, and terminated both... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - Science - 1854 - 534 pages
...bounded by a surface, of which every point is equally distant from a point within it called the centre. The radius of a sphere is a straight line drawn from the centre to any point in the sphere. IV. A straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the surface of the... | |
 | Charles Davies - Geometry - 1854 - 436 pages
...the sphere, any circular sector, as DCF, or FCA, describes a solid, called a spherical sector. 11. The radius of a sphere is a straight line drawn from the centre to any point of the surface ; the diameter or axis is a line passing through the centre, and terminated, on both... | |
 | Henry Kiddle - 1854 - 154 pages
...sphere is a straight line drawn through the centre, terminated both ways by the surface of the sphere. The radius of a sphere is a straight line drawn from the centre to the surface. Circles drawn on the surface of a sphere are of two kinds, great and small. Great circles... | |
 | John Davis - Circle-squaring - 1854 - 172 pages
...of the circle. The radius of a circle is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference. The radius of a sphere is a straight line drawn from the centre to the surface. An angle is the opening between two lines which meet each other at a point. One straight... | |
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