 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - Arithmetic - 1856 - 334 pages
...distance from the apex or top to the centre of the base. 17. The Slant height of a regular pyramid is the distance from the vertex to the middle of one of the sides of the base, or, if it be a cone, to the circumference of the base. 18. A WEDGE is a solid that has... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - Arithmetic - 1874 - 444 pages
...Vertex. The Altitude of a pyramid or cone is the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the base. The distance from the vertex to the middle of one of the sides of the base of a pyramid, or to the circumference of the base of a cone, is called the Slant Height.... | |
 | James William Nicholson - Arithmetic - 1885 - 348 pages
...polygon, and the other faces are triangles, which meet at a common point, called the vertex. The altitude of a pyramid is the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the base. 492. A cone is a solid having one base, which is a circle, and a curved surface terminating in... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Finkel - Mathematics - 1888 - 518 pages
...triangles. 54. The Altit ude ( Lat. Altitudo, from altus, high, and ude denoting state or condition) of a pyramid is the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the plane of the base. 55. The Slant Height of a pyramid, is the perpendicular distance from the vertex... | |
 | James William Nicholson - Arithmetic - 1889 - 408 pages
...polygon, and the other faces are triangles, which meet at a common point, called the vertex. The altitude of a pyramid is the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the base. 441. A cone is the solid that is formed by turning a right triangle around one of the sides that... | |
 | Edward Albert Bowser - Geometry - 1890 - 420 pages
...the lateral edges; and the area of the lateral surface is called the lateral area. 615. The altitude of a pyramid is the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the plane of the base. 616. A pyramid is called triangular, quadrangular, pentagonal, etc., according as... | |
 | John Tilden Prince - Arithmetic - 1894 - 254 pages
...3 57|ยง$ bbl. 8 20.5632 gal. 9 8 ft. 6.1241- in. 21 ft. 9.4379 in. 10 79.5872 sq. ft. The altitude of a pyramid is the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the base. The slant height of a regular pyramid is the perpendicular distance from the vertex to any side... | |
 | Gardner Chace Anthony - Mechanical drawing - 1894 - 190 pages
...othei faces are triangles havins? a common vertex known as the vertex of the pyramid. The altitude of a pyramid is the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the base. A pyramid ia regular if its base is a regular polygon whose centre lies in the perpendiculai... | |
 | Webster Wells - Geometry - 1894 - 400 pages
...lateral edges. The sum of the areas of the lateral faces is called the lateral area. 511. The altitude of a pyramid is the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the plane of the base. 512. A pyramid is called triangular, quadrangular, etc., according as its base is... | |
 | Charles Ambrose Van Velzer, George Clinton Shutts - Geometry - 1894 - 416 pages
...the intersections of the base with the lateral faces are called the basal edges. 440. The altitude of a pyramid is the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the plane of the base. 441. A pyramid is called triangular, quadrangular, pentagonal, etc., according as... | |
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The Slant height of a regular pyramid is the distance from the vertex to the middle of one of the sides of the base, or, if it be a cone, to the circumference of the base. 
