| Thomas Baker (C.E.) - 1865 - 174 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 maybe conceived to be formed by the revolution of a semicircle about its... | |
| Rolla Rouse - 1867 - 228 pages
...of. (18.) The diagonal is a line drawn from one angle of a right lined figure to another angle. (19.) A CIRCLE is a plane figure bounded by a curved line called the circumference, which is in all parts equidistant from a point within called the centre. Fig. 16, cafdgc. The diameter... | |
| Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1867 - 1204 pages
...perimeter of the polygon.'* But, on the contrary, 'A circle is a plane figure, bounded by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre.'^ Now, here, as in all other works on Geometry, the polygon and the circle are defined... | |
| John Fair Stoddard - Arithmetic - 1868 - 428 pages
...is 9 feet? Ans. 183 cu.ft. SPHERES. 514. A Sphere, or Globe is a solid, bounded by a convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center. The Diameter of a sphere is a line passing through its centre and terminating in its surface. The Radius is half the... | |
| Eli Todd Tappan - Geometry - 1868 - 432 pages
...circle. Hence, 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 more than two... | |
| John Fair Stoddard - Arithmetic - 1888 - 480 pages
...altitude is 9 feet ? Ans, SFHE! R El S . A Sphere, or Globe is a solid, bounded by a convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within 'called the center. TJie Diameter of a sphere is a line passing through its centre and terminating in its surface. The... | |
| 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... | |
| Joseph Ray - Arithmetic - 1857 - 358 pages
...the square. 19. A CIRCLE is a figure bounded by a curvo line, called the circumference, every part of •which is equally distant from a point within, called the center. A DIAJIETEK is a straight line passing through the center and terminated both ways by the circumference.... | |
| Horatio Nelson Robinson - 1869 - 276 pages
...the points in which are at the same c distance from a certain point within, called the Center. 50. The Diameter of a circle is a line passing through its center, and terminating at both ends in the circumference. 51. The Radius of a circle is a line extending from... | |
| Wilshire S. Courtney - Agriculture - 1869 - 532 pages
...to AB at its centre is called the minor diameter. A Sphere is a solid, bounded by a convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre ; as, Fig. 22. A Spheroid is a solid, generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one... | |
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