 CIRCLE is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre; as the figure ADB E.  Observational Geometry - Page 87by William Taylor Campbell - 1899 - 240 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Nathan Scholfield - Geometry - 1845 - 506 pages
...SPHERICAL GEOMETRY. DEFINITIONS. 1 . THE sphere is a solid terminated by a curve surface, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle DAE about its diameter DE;... | |
 | Nathan Scholfield - Conic sections - 1845 - 244 pages
...SPHERICAL GEOMETRY. DEFINITIONS. 1. THE sphere is a solid terminated by a curve surface, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. G The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle DAE about its diameter... | |
 | Nathan Scholfield - Conic sections - 1845 - 542 pages
...SPHERICAL GEOMETRY. DEFINITIONS. 1. THE sphere is a solid terminated by a curve surface, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. G The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle DAE about its diameter... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1846 - 362 pages
...3.14159. (Leg. 11. 5. Sch.) Note. — The circumference of a circle is a curve line, al1 the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The diameter of a circle is a straight line which passes through the centre, and is terminated on both... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - Geometry - 1846 - 216 pages
...parallel to the base. 11. A surface no part of which is plane is called a curved surface. A plane surface bounded by a curved line, all parts of which are equally distant from the middle point, or centre of the plane, is called a circle. The curved line bounding it is called... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1847 - 434 pages
...3.14159. (Leg. Y. 11. Sell.) Note. — The circumference of a circle is a curve line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The diameter of a circle is a straight line which passes through the centre, and is terminated- on both... | |
 | Benjamin Peirce - Geometry - 1847 - 204 pages
...XVIII. THE SPHERE. 415. Definition. A sphere is a solid terminated by a curved surface, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. 416. Corollary. The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle, DAE... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1848 - 432 pages
...by 3.14159. (Leg. V. 11. Sch.) Note.—The circumference of a circle is a curve line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The diameter of a circle is a straight line which passes through the centre, and is terminated on both... | |
 | Charles Davies - Trigonometry - 1849 - 372 pages
...MEASUREMENT OF ANGLES. Definitions. 1. The circumference of a circle is a curved line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The circle is Ihe space terminated by this curved line.* 2. Every straight line, CA, CE, CD, drawn from... | |
 | Rufus Putnam - Arithmetic - 1849 - 276 pages
...of the opposite end. 10. A SPHERE, or CLOSE, is a solid bounded by a curve surface, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. 11. A hemisphere is half a sphere. 12. The axis or diameter of a sphere is a line passing through the... | |
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