PERIPHERY of a circle is its entire bounding line ; or it is a curved line, all points of which are equally distant from a point within called the center. Plane Geometry - Page 103by Fletcher Durell - 1904 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
| Emerson Elbridge White - Arithmetic - 1883 - 374 pages
...is called the Base, and the other the Perpendicular or Altitude. (Art. 370.) ART. 190. A Circle is a plane bounded by a curved line, all points of which...equally distant from a point within called the center. (Art. 158, note 2.) The curved line which bounds a circle is its Circumference. ART. 191. The Diameter... | |
| Geography - 1883 - 132 pages
...North-west. South-west. — 10. What is a compass ? CIRCLES OF THE EARTH. 11. A Circle is a flat surface bounded by a curved line, all points of which are...equally distant from a point within called the center. 12. The Circumference of a circle is the curved line that bounds it. 13. A Great Circle is one that... | |
| Esmond Vedder De Graff, Margaret Keiver Smith - Teaching - 1883 - 324 pages
...possible, and describes.) T. Who can make the definition to suit that description? Ch. A space enclosed by a curved line, all points of which are equally distant from a point within, is called (T. give term) a circle. 59 Ch. The space is the circle. T. -(To circumference.) What is... | |
| Daniel W. Fish - Arithmetic - 1883 - 360 pages
...vertex to the circumf. of the base. 478. A sphere is a body bounded by a uniformly curved face, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the center. The diameter of a sphere is a straight line passing through the center of the sphere, and terminated at... | |
| Daniel W. Fish - Arithmetic - 1883 - 348 pages
...parallel to the base. Frusiums. 478. A sphere is a body bounded by a uniformly curved face, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the center. The diameter of a sphere is a straight line passing through the center of the sphere, and terminated at... | |
| Samue Harris (D.D.) - Theism - 1892 - 606 pages
...these truths and laws. I have the idea of a circle as a portion of space inclosed by a line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the center. If I think of a line actually drawn in exact accordance with this idea, I think the figure thus described... | |
| James William Nicholson - Arithmetic - 1885 - 348 pages
...ft., and the diameter of the base 2 ft. 8 in. 494. A sphere is' a solid bounded by a curved surface all points of which are equally distant from a point within called the center. The diameter of a sphere is a straight line drawn through the center and terminated both ways by the surface.... | |
| George Albert Wentworth - Arithmetic - 1886 - 392 pages
...perpendicular to the middle of AB, § 347. FIG. 14. Fie. 15. CIRCUMFERENCES. 356. A circumference is a curved line all points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. 357. To trace a circumference, fix upon paper one of the points of the compasses open,... | |
| Frank Eugene Kidder - Architecture - 1886 - 640 pages
...upper part of it by a plane parallel to the base. A sphere is a volume bounded by a curved sin-face, all points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. treats of the measurement of lines, surface*. "Fig. 21 .Mensuration find rolumes. RULES.... | |
| Webster Wells - Geometry - 1886 - 392 pages
...see page 217. BOOK II. THE CIRCLE. DEFINITIONS. 150. A circle is a plane figure bounded by a curve, all points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. The curve which bounds the circle is called the circumference, and any portion of it is... | |
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