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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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The geometry, by T. S. Davies. Conic sections, by Stephen Fenwick

Royal Military Academy, Woolwich - Mathematics - 1853 - 400 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 otf by...
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The first six books of the Elements of Euclid, with numerous exercises

Euclides - Geometry - 1853 - 178 pages
...circumference, are equal to one another. XVI. And this point is called the centre of the circle. XVII. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through...centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. XVIII. A semicircle b the figure contained by a diameter and the part of the circumference cut off...
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The synoptical Euclid; being the first four books of Euclid's Elements of ...

Euclides - 1853 - 146 pages
...circumference are equal to one another. XVI. And this point is called the centre of the circle. XVII. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through...centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. XVIII. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter and the part of the circumference cut off...
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High School Arithmetic

James B. Dodd - 1853 - 398 pages
...radius of a circle is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference; and the diameter is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 5 392. An arc of a circle is any part of the circumference; and the chord of an arc is a straight line...
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The Elements of Euclid, books i-vi; xi. 1-21; xii. 1,2; ed. by H.J. Hose, Book 1

Euclides - Geometry - 1853 - 334 pages
...ABC, or DBC, &c. F is the centre ; and FA, FB, FC, &c., are radii. XVII. A diameter of a circle is any straight line drawn through the centre and terminated both ways by the circumference. XVIII. A semicircle is the figure contained by any diameter of a circle, and by either of the two parts...
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Elements of geometry and mensuration

Thomas Lund - Geometry - 1854 - 522 pages
...measures the distance from the centre to the circumference is called the radius of the circle. Any straight line drawn through the centre and terminated both ways by the circumference is called a diameter of the circle. Thus, in the fig. here traced, the area or surface in the plane...
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Orr's Circle of the Sciences: Organic nature, vols. 1-3 (1854-1856)

William Somerville Orr - Science - 1854 - 534 pages
...centre. The radius of a sphere is a straight line drawn from the centre to any point in the sphere. IV. A straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the surface of the sphere, is called the diameter. PROPOSITION I. 'Every section of a tpliere made by aplane...
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A Treatise of Plane Trigonometry, and the Mensuration of Heights and ...

Jeremiah Day - Logarithms - 1855 - 344 pages
...any portion of the circumference. A semi-circle is half, and a quadrant onefourth of a circle. II. A Diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through...centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. A Radius is a straight line extending from the centre to the circumference. A Chord is a straight line...
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Gradations in Euclid : books i. and ii., with an explanatory preface [&c ...

Euclides - 1858 - 248 pages
...The straight lines from the centre to the circumference are radii. 17. A diameter of a circle is any straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways« by the circumference ; as AB, or DE, in the circle AD BE. A diameter is double of a radius. 18. A semicircle is the figure...
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Spherical Trigonometry ...

Isaac Todhunter - Spherical trigonometry - 1859 - 156 pages
...sphere. The straight line which joins any point of the surface with the centre is called a radius. A straight line drawn through the centre and terminated both ways by the surface is called a diameter. 2. Tliz section of the surface of a sphere made by any plane is a circle....
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