 | George William Usill - Surveying - 1889 - 306 pages
...circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such that all lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another. 8. Centre of Circle. — And this point is called the centre of the circle. 9. Diameter of Circle.... | |
 | Edward Mann Langley, W. Seys Phillips - 1890 - 538 pages
...Figure is that which is inclosed by one or more boundaries. 15. A Circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and...figure to the 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... | |
 | Euclid - Geometry - 1892 - 460 pages
...BOOK III. Book III. deals with the properties of Circles. DEFINITIONS. 1 . A circle is a plane figure bounded by one line, which is called the circumference,...figure to the circumference are equal to one another: this point is called the centre of the circle. 2. A radius of a circle is a straight line drawn from... | |
 | Mines and mineral resources - 1894 - 330 pages
...contained or bounded by one line which is called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another. This point is called the centre of the circle, as Fig. 19, o being the centre. Fig. u. Fig. 19. Fig.... | |
 | Thomas Aloysius O'Donahue - Mine surveying - 1896 - 186 pages
...contained or bounded by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another. This point is called the centre of the circle, as in Fig. 32, O being the centre. The radius of a circle... | |
 | Andrew Jamieson - Steam - 1897 - 362 pages
...CIRCLE is a plane figure bounded by one line, which is called the circumference ; and is such, t/tat all straight lines drawn from, a certain point within...figure to the circumference are equal to one another. This point is called tlie centre of the circle. A DIAMETER of a circle is a straight line drawn through... | |
 | Euclid, Henry Sinclair Hall, Frederick Haller Stevens - Euclid's Elements - 1900 - 330 pages
...reference the following definitions are repeated from Book I. I. Def. 15. A circle is a plane figure bounded by one line, which is called the circumference,...figure to the circumference are equal to one another : this point is called the centre of the circle. NOTE. Circles which have the same centre are said... | |
 | 1901 - 530 pages
...tailed the rircumferenrt, and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point (the centre) within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another. The properties of the circle are investigated in books on geometry and trigonometry. Properly the curve... | |
 | G. F. Burn - Geometry - 1903 - 272 pages
...boundary line of a circle or curved figure. Adjacent means adjoining. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and...figure to the circumference, are equal to one another. And this point is called the centre of the circle. In Practical Geometry, the circumference of a circle... | |
 | Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching - 1903 - 342 pages
...41. A circlets a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is suck that all straight lines drawn from a certain point...figure to the circumference are equal to one another. This point, is called the centre of the circle. DEF. 42. A radius of a circle is a straight line drawn... | |
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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. 
