 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1867 - 1204 pages
...polygon, is called the perimeter of the polygon.'* But, on the contrary, 'A circle is a plane figure, bounded by a curved line, every point of which is...distant from a point within, called the centre.'^ Now, here, as in all other works on Geometry, the polygon and the circle are defined as separate and... | |
 | Rolla Rouse - 1867 - 228 pages
...height or altitude. (235.) SPHERE OR GLOBE. Is a figure terminated at all parts by a surface, every part of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. (236.) SEGMENT of a pyramid, sphere, or other solid, is a part cut off the top by a plane parallel... | |
 | C. Davies - 1867 - 342 pages
...pyramid may be inscribed in the frustum of a cone7 A SPHERE is a volume bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centreThe distance from the centre to the circumference is called the radius- The diameter is a... | |
 | Henry Kiddle - Astronomy - 1868 - 300 pages
...bounded by lines is called a PLANE FIGURE. Pig. i. 10. A CIRCLE is a plane figure bounded by a curve line every point of which is equally distant from, a point within, called the centre. 11. The curve line that bounds a circle is called the CIRCUMFERENCE. 12. The DIAMETER of a circle is... | |
 | Edward Brooks - Geometry - 1868 - 284 pages
...including those angles. BOOK IV. OF TJHE CIRCLE. DEFINITIONS. 1. A CIRCLE is a plane bounded by a curve line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. 2. The CIRCUMFERENCE is the bounding lino of a circle. An ARC is any part of the circumference; as,... | |
 | Eli Todd Tappan - Geometry - 1868 - 444 pages
...the following definitions: A CIRCLE is a portion of a plane bounded by a line called a CIRCUMFERENCE, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the CENTER. 146. Theorem. — A circumference is curved throughout. For a straight line can not have... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel - Arithmetic - 1913 - 144 pages
...gallons, nearly. THE SPHERE. 20. A sphere (fig. 46) is a solid bounded by a uniformly curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center. The word hall or globe is generally used instead of sphere. 21. To tind the area of the... | |
 | George Morris Philips, Robert Franklin Anderson - Arithmetic - 1913 - 394 pages
...bottom diameter 10 in., and depth 8 in.? Spheres 441. A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface every point of which, is equally distant from a point within called the center. A diameter of a sphere is a straight line drawn from surface to surface through the center;... | |
 | William James Milne - Arithmetic - 1914 - 524 pages
...53 rd. 12 rd. 2yd. ,7. 32 yd.; 28yd. 22 ft. / 14. 78 yd.; 62 yd. 25yd. 18 in. CIRCLES A plane figure bounded by a curved line every point of which is equally distant from a point within is a circle; the point within is the center; and ^ the bounding line, the circumference. A straight... | |
 | Measuring instruments - 1914 - 428 pages
...Ans. 33. Volume of Sphere. — A sphere, Fig. 15, is a solid bounded by a uniformly curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the center. The word ball is commonly used instead of sphere. The volume of a sphere may be found as... | |
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A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center. 
