 | Euclid, Henry Sinclair Hall, Frederick Haller Stevens - Euclid's Elements - 1900 - 330 pages
...breadth. 3. The extremities of a line are points, and the intersection of two lines is a point. 4. A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points. Any portion cut off from a straight line is called a segment of it. 5. A surface (or superficies) is... | |
 | Euclid - Euclid's Elements - 1904 - 488 pages
...breadth. 3. The extremities of a line are points, and the intersection of two lines is a point. / 4. A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points. Any portion cut off from a straight line is called a segment of it. 5. A surface (or superficies) is... | |
 | Joseph H. Rose - Sheet-metal work - 1906 - 340 pages
...DEFINITIONS OF PLANE FIGURES. A line is length without breadth. The extremities of a line are points. A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points. A plane surface is that in which any two points, being taken, the straight line between them lies wholly... | |
 | William Hughes - 1908 - 942 pages
...: ie a point indicates position only A Line is length without breadth. Its extremities are points. A Straight Line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points. A Plane is that which has only length and breadth, and is such that any two points being given, a straight... | |
 | Hastings Berkeley - Mathematics - 1910 - 279 pages
...Geometry, Part I/ in the Encyclopaedia Britannica,1 when he remarks that ' Euclid's Definition 4, 1 — A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points — must be meaningless to any one who has not the notion of straightness in his mind/ And the remark... | |
 | Thomas Aloysius O'Donahue - Mine surveying - 1911 - 288 pages
...length, breadth, nor thickness. A line is length without breadth. The extremities of a line are pointa A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points, and is the shortest distance between any two points, as AB (Fig. 16). same straight line, as A (Fig.... | |
 | James Welton, Alexander James Monahan - Logic - 1911 - 544 pages
...another number. (6) A legislator is a member either of the House of Commons or of the House of Lords. (c) A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points. (d) An idle person is one who will not work when he can. 4. Show by examples the nature of the mistakes... | |
 | H. E. Licks - 1917 - 224 pages
...treatises on that subject. A point is defined to be that "which has no parts and which has no magnitude"; a straight line is that which "lies evenly between its extreme points." ... In this case the explanation is a great deal harder than the term to be explained, which must always... | |
 | H. E. Licks - Mathematics - 1917 - 172 pages
...treatises on that subject. A point is defined to be that "which has no parts and which has no magnitude"; a straight line is that which "lies evenly between its extreme points." ... In this case the explanation is a great deal harder than the term to be explained, which must always... | |
 | Stephen Leacock - 1923 - 260 pages
...said John Enderby, "henceforth let us stick to the narrow path. What is it that the Good Book says : 'A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points.' " X THE MAN IN ASBESTOS AN ALLEGORY OF THE FUTURE X. — The Man in Asbestos: An Allegory of the Future.... | |
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A plane superficies is that in which any two points being taken, the straight line between them lies wholly in that superficies. vm. "A plane angle is the inclination of two lines to one another in a plane, which meet together, but are not in the same... 
