 | John Ogilvie - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1883 - 834 pages
...contained under a single surface, which in every part is equally distant from a point called its centre. It may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle about n diameter, which remains fixed, and which is hence called the axis of the sphere.... | |
 | John Merrifield - Nautical astronomy - 1886 - 376 pages
...equally distant from a point fixed relatively to that surface. This point is the centre of the sphere. It may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle abovit its diameter, which remains fixed in space. A GREAT CIRCLE is one whose plane passes... | |
 | Seth Thayer Stewart - Geometry - 1891 - 426 pages
...oblique to the base of the cone. 520. The cone of revolution is a right cone with circular base; it may be generated by the revolution of a rightangled triangle about one of its sides as an axis. 522. A right cross section of a cylinder or of a cone is a section made by a... | |
 | John Tilden Prince - Arithmetic - 1894 - 254 pages
...pyramids. For suggestions in answering 5 and 6, see page 20, Book VI. circular cone is a volume that may be generated by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of its legs as an axis.) 78 Answers: 3 128 cu. ft. 4 93537284 cu. ft. 5 386.34 sq. in. 6 6f in. 7 15.919... | |
 | Wooster Woodruff Beman, David Eugene Smith - Geometry - 1895 - 346 pages
...an oblique circular cone. A right circular cone is often called a cone of revolution, because it can be generated by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of its shorter sides. A right circular cylinder is often called a cylinder of revolution. (Why ?) RELATION... | |
 | Wooster Woodruff Beman, David Eugene Smith - Geometry - 1895 - 344 pages
...an oblique circular cone. A right circular cone is often called a cone of revolution, because it can be generated by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of its shorter sides. A right circular cylinder is often called a cylinder of revolution. (Why ?) BELATION... | |
 | Philip John Davies - Plumbing - 1896 - 488 pages
...circle for its base, and terminated by a point called the vertex, or Fro. 1,168. apex, of the cone. It may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about its perpendicular. See Fig. 1,168. A line drawn from the apex to the centre of the base is the axis... | |
 | Wooster Woodruff Beman, David Eugene Smith - Geometry - 1899 - 412 pages
...an oblique circular cone. A right circular cone is often called a cone of revolution, because it can be generated by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of its shorter sides. A right circular cylinder is often called a cylinder of revolution. (Why?) 435.... | |
 | Wooster Woodruff Beman, David Eugene Smith - 1903 - 158 pages
...an oblique circular cone. A right circular cone is often called a cone of revolution, because it can be generated by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of its shorter sides. A right circular cylinder is often called a cylinder of revolution. (Why ?) 435.... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Annandale - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1901 - 578 pages
...contained under a single surface, which iu every part is equally distant from a point called the centre. It may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter, which remains H.\ed, and which is hence called the n.rix of the sphere.... | |
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A right circular cone is often called a cone of revolution, because it can be generated by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of its shorter sides. 
