| Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1849 - 336 pages
...and the diameter at the larger end 12 inches, and at the smaller end 6 inches ? THE SPHERE. ART. 348. A SPHERE is a solid, bounded by one continued convex surface, every part of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The axis or diameter of a... | |
| Charles Guilford Burnham - 1850 - 350 pages
...at the top, called the vertex of the pyramid. 7. A cone is a round pyramid, having a circular base. 8. A sphere is a solid, bounded by one continued convex...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... | |
| Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1850 - 368 pages
...cone is a solid figure, having a circle for its base, and its top terminated in a point or vertex. 8. A sphere is a solid, bounded by one continued convex...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... | |
| John Weale - 1850 - 590 pages
...frame at the top of a bed or canopy Sphere, in geometry, a globe, a solid contained under one uniform surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre of the sphere, and may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle... | |
| Daniel Leach - Arithmetic - 1851 - 280 pages
...inches ? MENSURATION OF SOLIDS. SECTION XLI. 374. A SPHERE, or globe, is a solid, bounded by a curve surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the centre. 37<5« The diameter, or axis, of a sphere is a straight Jine passing through... | |
| Benjamin Greenleaf - 1851 - 332 pages
...cellar of the same size, having the length, width, and depth equal ? Ans. 13.92-f- feet. ART. 284. A SPHERE is a solid bounded by one continued convex surface, every part of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The diameter of a sphere is... | |
| Alexander Ingram - 1851 - 202 pages
...its two ends, and its upright sides trapezoids. 9. A SPHERE, or GLOBE, is a solid bounded by a curve surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within it called the centre. NOTE. A Sphere may be conceived to be generated by a semicircle revolving about... | |
| Daniel Leach - Arithmetic - 1853 - 622 pages
...inches ? MENSURATION OF SOLIDS. SECTION XLI. k 374. A SPHERE, or globe, is a solid, bounded by a curve surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the centre. 375. The diameter, or axis, of a sphere is a straight line passing through the... | |
| Ezra S. Winslow - Business mathematics - 1853 - 264 pages
...parameter. A Sphere, or globe, is a perfectly round substance — a solid contained under a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. Its axis, or diameter, is any right line passing from a side through the centre... | |
| Benjamin Greenleaf - 1854 - 342 pages
...another cellar of the same size, having the length, width, and depth equal ? Ans. 13.92+ feet. ART. 2841. A SPHERE is a solid bounded by one continued convex surface, every part of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The diameter of a sphere is... | |
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