 | John Brocklesby - Astronomy - 1855 - 394 pages
...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 limited by the surface, is a diameter. The... | |
 | John Fair Stoddard - Arithmetic - 1856 - 312 pages
...NONAOON ; that of ten, a DECAGON ; that of twelve, a DODECAGON, &c. A CIRCLE is a plane, terminated by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The curved line is called the circumference. The DIAMETER of a circle is a line passing... | |
 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1856 - 450 pages
...chains, and the perpendicular distance between them 52 chains ? 337. A circle is a portion of a plane bounded by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a certain point within, called the centre. The curved line AEBD is called the circumference ; the point... | |
 | Thomas Solly - Free will and determinism - 1856 - 304 pages
...conceptions in the above instance united in the conception of the cause; the flight through the air in a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a certain imaginary fixed point and an imaginary straight line, are the representations united in the... | |
 | Hiram Mattison - Astronomy - 1856 - 254 pages
...• c. i;. 18. ClBCLES AND ELLIPSES. A Circle is a plane figure, bounded by a curve line, every part of which is equally distant from a point within called the center. Concentric Circles are such as are drawn around a common center. The Circumference of a circle is the... | |
 | Thomas Solly - Free will and determinism - 1856 - 320 pages
...conceptions in the above instance united in the conception of the cause; the flight through the air in a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a certain imaginary fixed point and an imaginary straight line, are the representations united in the... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1857 - 336 pages
...the distance from one of the lower corners to an opposite upper corner. Ans. 32.3+ feet. /( ART. 289. A CIRCLE is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, every part of which is equally distant from a point called the centre. The circumference or periphery of... | |
 | Charles Davies, William Guy Peck - Mathematics - 1857 - 608 pages
...hyperboloids of one nappe. SPHiRE. [L. sphrcra. Gt. afaipa']. A solid or volume bounded by a surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. Or it is a volume that may be generated by revolving a semicircle about its diameter as... | |
 | Sarah S. Cornell - Geography - 1857 - 420 pages
...magnitude of the radius. Definition of a Sphere. — A Sphere is a hody hounded by one continuous surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called its centre. Any line drawn from the centre to the surface is called a radiits. A line passing through... | |
 | William E. Bell - Bridge building - 1857 - 250 pages
...angles are those which have like positions in similar polygons. 34. The circumference of a circle is a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. 35. The circle is the surface bounded by the circumference. 36. A radius of a circle is... | |
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A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center. 
