 | 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 the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 18. A semicircle is the figure contained by... | |
 | 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 the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. XVIII. A semicircle is the figure contained... | |
 | Euclides - Geometry - 1853 - 176 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 the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. XVIII. A semicircle b the figure contained by... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - Science - 1854 - 534 pages
...circle. And any line drawn from the centre to the circumference is called a radius of the circle. xrv. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. A radios is therefore half the diameter, or... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Logarithms - 1855 - 344 pages
...periphery. An arc is 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 the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. A Radius is a straight line extending from the... | |
 | Euclides - 1855 - 270 pages
...the circle. The straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference, ie called the radius. XVII. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, anc terminated both ways by the circumference. XVIII. A semicircle is the figure contained... | |
 | Robert Rawson - 1856 - 178 pages
...circumference, are equal to one another. XVL And this point is called the centre of the circle. XVH. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. xvin. A semicircle is the figure contained by... | |
 | Joseph Ray - Arithmetic - 1857 - 348 pages
...•which is equally distant from a point within, called the center. A DIAMETER is a straight line passing through the center and terminated both ways by the circumference. A RADIUS is T a straight line drawn from the center to the circumference; it is half the diameter. Thus, ADBE is... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Conic sections - 1858 - 256 pages
...C. The point C is the center of the ellipse ; and , / CF or CF' is the eccentricity. f 5. A diameter is a straight line drawn through the center, and terminated both ways by the curve. 6. The extremities of a diameter are called its vertices. Thus, through C draw any straight... | |
 | William E. Bell - Bridge building - 1857 - 250 pages
...circle all radii are equal ; all diameters are also equal, and each diameter is double the radius. 37. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated on both sides by the circumference. In Fig. 17, CD, CG, ami CF are radii, and... | |
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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... 
