| Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1849 - 336 pages
...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 sphere is a line passing through the centre, and terminated by the surface. QUESTIONS.... | |
| Charles Guilford Burnham - 1850 - 350 pages
...round pyramid, having a circular base. 8. A sphere is a solid, bounded by one continued convex surface, every 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 its diameter, which remains... | |
| Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1850 - 368 pages
...top terminated in a point or vertex. 8. A sphere is a solid, bounded by one continued convex surface, every 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 its diameter, which remains... | |
| John Weale - Architecture - 1850 - 590 pages
...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 aboui its diameter,... | |
| John Weale - 1850 - 590 pages
...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 about its diameter,... | |
| Benjamin Greenleaf - 1851 - 332 pages
...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 a straight line passing through the centre, and terminated by the surface ;... | |
| Elias Loomis - Calculus - 1851 - 300 pages
...become x=r cos. «, y=r sin. v. SECTION IT. ON THE CIRCLE. (32.) A CIRCLE is a plane figure bounded by a line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center. This bounding line is called the circumference of the circle. A radius of a circle is a... | |
| John Fair Stoddard - Arithmetic - 1852 - 320 pages
...NONAGOJ* ; that of t«i, a DECAGON ; that of twelve, a DODECAGON, &-i•.. A CIRCLE is a plane, terminated by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, culled the center. The curved line is called the circumference The DIAMETER of a circle is a line passing... | |
| 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 to the opposite side.... | |
| Benjamin Greenleaf - 1854 - 342 pages
...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 a straight line passing through the centre, and terminated by the surface ;... | |
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