 | Charles Richson - 1848 - 98 pages
...of dividers or compasses will be useful in explaining this definition.} 2. "A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. ' ' 3. "A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter, and the part of the circumference... | |
 | Euclides - 1848 - 52 pages
...one another. XVI. And this point is called ttas 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 by a diameter and the part of the circumference... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Logarithms - 1848 - 354 pages
...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 centre to the circumference. A Chord... | |
 | James Thomson - 1848 - 326 pages
...the transverse, and DE the conjugate or second axis.* In both the ellipse and the hyperbola also, any straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the curve is called a diameter. 5. From the equation of the ellipse found in No. 3, we have a2 : 62 : :... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1849 - 336 pages
...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 ; as A B. B ART. 285. A CONE is a solid having... | |
 | Euclid, Thomas Tate - 1849 - 120 pages
...one another. A VI. 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 by a diameter and the part of the circumference... | |
 | Minard Lafever - Architecture - 1849 - 306 pages
...from a certain point within the circle, called the centre. (Fig. 23.) XXXI. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. (Fig. 23.) XXXII. A radius of a circle is half of a diameter, or a straight line drawn... | |
 | Thomas Kelt - Mechanical engineering - 1849 - 424 pages
...is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference, as O B. 4. The diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways at the circumference, as CO A. 5. A chord is a straight line joining any two points of the circumference,... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1851 - 332 pages
...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 ; as A B. ART. 283>. A CONE is a solid having... | |
 | Sir Henry Edward Landor Thuillier - Surveying - 1851 - 826 pages
...figure called the Centre, thus : ABDE is the circumference and C the centre. The Diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated •*' both ways by the circumference, thus : AB is the diameter of the circle ADBE. The Radius of a circle is a straight line... | |
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A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 
