 | Commissioners of National Education in Ireland - Measurement - 1841 - 286 pages
...MENSURATION OF SOLIDS. 6. A cylinder i« a round solid, having circular ends, and may be conceived to be described by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides, which remains fixed. 7. A. pyramid is a solid, having a plane figure for its base ; and whose sides are triangles meeting... | |
 | J. M. Scribner - Measurement - 1844 - 130 pages
...DEFINITIONS. ART. 49. 1. A Right Cylinder is a solid, having equal and parallel circles for its ends, and is described by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides. Thus, EF (fig. I) is a right cylinder. 2. The Jlxis of a cylinder is a line passing through the centre,... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1845 - 444 pages
...triangle, it is a triangular pyramid. If a square, it is a square pyramid. VII. A cylinder is a solid described by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides remaining fixed ; which side is named the axis ; and either of the circles described by its adjacent... | |
 | Euclid, James Thomson - Geometry - 1845 - 382 pages
...plane parallel to the base, is equal and similar to the base. Schol. Since (XI. def. 24) a cylinder is described by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides, it is plain that any straight line in the rectangle perpendicular to the fixed line, wift describe... | |
 | Dennis M'Curdy - Geometry - 1846 - 168 pages
...is the stationary straight line about which the trianqle revolves. 14. A cylinder is a solid figure described by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides, which is fixed. 15. The axis of a cylinder is the stationary side of the rectangle which revolves. 16. The... | |
 | William Vogdes - Arithmetic - 1847 - 324 pages
...equal parallel and similar plane figures, and whose sides are parallelograms. 39. A cylinder is a solid described by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides, which remains fixed. 40. A cone is a solid formed by the revolution of a rightangled triangle about one of its legs, which... | |
 | James Wharton - 1847 - 224 pages
...are equal and parallel. 4. A cylinder is a round solid, having circular ends, and may be conceived to be described by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides. 5. A pyramid is a solid, having a plane figure for its base ; and whose sides are triangles meeting... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Logarithms - 1848 - 354 pages
...inches. SECTION IV. THE CYLINDER, CONE, AND SPHERE. ART. 01. DEFINITION I. A right cylinder is a solid described by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides. The ends or bases are evidently equal and parallel circles. And the axis, which is a line passing through... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Conic sections - 1849 - 252 pages
...three quadrantal triangles, etc. BOOK X. THE THREE ROUND BODIES. Definitions. 1. A cylinder is a solid described by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides, which remains fixed. The bases of the cylinder are the circles described by the two revolving opposite sides of the rectangle.... | |
 | Almon Ticknor - Measurement - 1849 - 156 pages
...are triangles ; a square prism when its ends are square, &c. Fig. 3. Kg. 4. 4. A cylinder is a solid described by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides, as an axis, which remains fixed ; as ABC D. 5. A cone is a solid described by the revolution of a right-angled... | |
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A right cylinder is a solid described by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides. 
