 | Charles Guilford Burnham - Arithmetic - 1841 - 324 pages
...having a circular base. 8. A sphere is a solid, bounded by one continued convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be formed by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter, which... | |
 | William Grier - Mechanical engineering - 1842 - 320 pages
...is equiangular when all its angles are equal. When both these are equal, it is a regular figure. 45. A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curve line, called the Circumference, which is everywhere equidistant from a certain point within, called its Centre. The circumference itself... | |
 | J. M. Scribner - Measurement - 1844 - 130 pages
...required the area. -Ans. SECTION II. MENSURATION OF THE CIRCLE AND ITS PARTS. DEFINITIONS. ART. 15. — 1. A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curve line,...circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a certain point within, called the centre ; J1EBD (fig. 1) is a circle. 2. A Diameter of a circle is... | |
 | Charles Haynes Haswell - Engineering - 1844 - 298 pages
..." eight " A Nonagon . " nine *• A Decagon " ten " An Undecagon " eleven " A Dodecagon " twelve " A CIRCLE is a plane figure bounded by a curve line, called the Circumference (or Periphery). An Arc is any part of the circumference of a circle. A Chord is u right line joining... | |
 | Peter Nicholson - Geometry - 1845 - 430 pages
...irregular. and a square is one of the four ; the former being called a trigon, and the latter a tetragon. A circle is a plane figure, bounded by a curve line, called the circumference, which is every where equi-distant, from a certain point within, called its centre. The radius of a... | |
 | John Lee COMSTOCK (and HOBLYN (Richard Dennis)), John Lee COMSTOCK - 1846 - 506 pages
...or spherical body, more usually called a sphere, bounded by one uniform convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. GNOMON. An apparatus used by the ancients for finding the altitudes and declinations of the celestial... | |
 | Frederic A. Adams - Arithmetic - 1846 - 230 pages
...and parallel. The diagonal divides it into two equal parts. A circle is a figure bounded by a curved line, called the circumference, every part of which is equally distant from the centre. A straight line from the centre to the circumference is called the radius. The diameter... | |
 | James Robinson (of Boston.) - 1847 - 304 pages
...pentagon. ED 34. The perimeter of a figure is the sum of all its sides. 35. A CIRCLE is a plane surface bounded by a curve line, called the circumference...part of which is equally distant from a point within the figure, called the centre of the circle. The figure CDE is a circle. 36. THE RADIUS of a circle... | |
 | Charles William Hackley - Geometry - 1847 - 248 pages
...the latter a tetragon. 40. A Diagonal is a line joining any two angles of a polygon not adjacent. 41. A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curve line, called the Circumference, every point of which is equidistant from a certain point within, called the Center. 42. The Radius of a circle... | |
 | Peter Nicholson, Joseph Gwilt - Architectural drawing Technique - 1848 - 750 pages
...sides, and a square is one of four ; the former being caUed a trigon, and the latter a tetragon. 42. A circle is a plane figure, bounded by a curve line, called the circumference, which is everywhere equidistant from a certain point within it, called its centre. PLATE 3. 43. The... | |
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A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line called the circumference, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre ; as ABD E. 
