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" A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such, that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another : 16. And this point is called the centre... "
Mensuration of lines, areas, surfaces, and volumes - Page xiii
by Robert Rawson - 1856
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An Advanced Arithmetic, Theoretical and Practical

James William Nicholson - Arithmetic - 1889 - 408 pages
...points of which are equally distant irom a point within called the centre. The diameter of a sphere is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the surface. The radius is a straight line drawn from the centre to the surface. 445. To find the surface...
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The Harpur Euclid: An Edition of Euclid's Elements

Edward Mann Langley, W. Seys Phillips - 1890 - 538 pages
...circumference are equal to one another. 16. And this point is called the Centre of the circle. 17. A Diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through...centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 18. A Semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter and the part of the Circumference cut off by...
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The Elements of Plane and Solid Geometry ...

Edward Albert Bowser - Geometry - 1890 - 418 pages
...called the centre. A radius is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference. A diameter is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. Thus, in the figure, ABCDE is the circumference; the space included within the circumference is the...
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Euclid's Elements of Geometry, Books 1-6

Henry Martyn Taylor - 1893 - 486 pages
...one centre. E A straight line drawn from the centre of the circle to the circle is called a radius. A straight line drawn through the centre and terminated both ways by the circle is called a diameter. It will be proved hereafter that three points on a circle completely fix...
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Elementary Geometry

William Chauvenet - 1893 - 340 pages
...A radius of the sphere is any straight line drawn from the centre to the surface. A diameter is any straight line drawn through the centre and terminated both ways by the surface. Since all the radii are equal and every diameter is double the radius, all the diameters are...
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Euclid's Elements of Geometry, Books 1-6; Book 11

Henry Martyn Taylor - Euclid's Elements - 1895 - 708 pages
...only one centre. A straight line drawn from the centre of the circle to the circle is called a radius. A straight line drawn through the centre and terminated both ways by the circle is called a diameter. It will be proved hereafter that three points on a circle completely fix...
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Colliery Surveying: A Primer Designed for the Use of Students and Colliery ...

Thomas Aloysius O'Donahue - Mine surveying - 1896 - 184 pages
...radius of a circle is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference, as OC (Fig. 32). The diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through...centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference, as AB (Fig. 32). . An arc of a circle is any part of the circumference, as EDF (Fig. 32). A chord of...
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Lloyd's Encyclopaedic Dictionary: A New and Original Work of ..., Volume 2

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1896 - 784 pages
...[CKNTBS.] A straight line drawn from the centre of a circle to its circumference is called a radius, and a straight line drawn through the centre and terminated both ways by the circumference la called the diameter of a circle. The space enclosed within the circumference is called the area...
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Elementary Manual on Steam and the Steam Engine

Andrew Jamieson - Steam - 1897 - 362 pages
...figure to the circumference are equal to one another. This point is called tlie centre of the circle. A DIAMETER of a circle is a straight line drawn through...centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. A RADIUS of a circle is a, straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference. A radius is therefore...
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Mind, Volume 7

Electronic journals - 1898 - 614 pages
...with manifestly real subjects ; eg : — 'A horse is a mammal.' ' Socrates died in the year 399 BC' ' A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through...centre and terminated both ways by the circumference.' In such cases as these the grammatical is probably also the logical subject of the proposition. We...
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