 | Franklin Ibach - Geometry - 1882 - 208 pages
...Radius is a straight line extending from the centre to any point in the circumference; as, OC. 173. A Diameter of a circle is a straight line passing through the centre and terminating each way in the circumference; as, AB. 174. A Chora is a straight line joining any two... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - Geometry - 1883 - 326 pages
...the Centre. 5. Any straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference is called a Radius. 6. A Diameter of a circle is a straight line passing through...centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. aa Illustration.—A circle may be conyz ceived as the path of a line, AC, one end of which, C, remains... | |
 | Edward Olney - Geometry - 1883 - 344 pages
...point in the circumference of a circle. By reason of (24) all radii of the same circle are equal. 28. A Diameter of a circle- is a straight line passing through the centre and limited by the circumference. A diameter is equal.to the sum of two radii; hence, all diameters of... | |
 | Adam Hammond - Bricklaying - 1885 - 184 pages
...within it called its centre, as o ; and an arc of a circle is any part of its circumference, as A B. 24. The diameter of a circle is a straight line passing...diameter of the circle ; the diameter divides the circle into two equal parts, each of •which is called a semicircle : the diameter also divides the circumference... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - 1886 - 322 pages
...points of all the chords. Therefore (2) is the equation of a diameter. COR. From (2) we see that a diameter of a circle is a straight line passing through the centre and perpendicular to its chords. ANALYTIC GEOMETRY. 70. Two distinct, two coincident, or no tangents can... | |
 | Christian Brothers - Arithmetic - 1888 - 484 pages
...Circumference, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the Centre. 260. The Diameter of a circle is a straight line passing through the centre, and terminating at both ends in the circumference. 261. The Radius of a circle is a straight line drawn... | |
 | John Clement Primrose Aldous - Nautical astronomy - 1887 - 70 pages
...of a Sphere is a straight line joining the centre to any point in the surface A Diameter of a Sphere is a straight line passing through the centre and terminated both ways by the surface. A Section of the surface of a Sphere made by a plane is a circle. (Theorem}. A Great Circle... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - 1888 - 372 pages
...by one uniform curved line. 478. The Circumference of a circle is the curved line bounding it. 479. The Diameter of a circle is a straight line passing through the center, and terminating in the circumference. It is proved in geometry that in every circle the ratio... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1888 - 900 pages
....'. 2xtrianzle OPF-3 area PQl» or, «rea PQF-i triangle OFF. PART II.-THE ELLIPSE. DEFINITIONS. À straight line passing through the centre, and terminated both ways by the ellipse, is called a diameter. The extremities of a diameter are called its vertief». The diameter... | |
 | John Edward King - Business mathematics - 1891 - 254 pages
...circumference of a circle, the diameter being given. RULE. — Multiply the diameter by 8.14.16. 267. The Diameter of a Circle is a straight line passing through the center and terminating in the circumference. To find the diameter of a circle, the circumference being... | |
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The diameter of a circle is a straight line passing through the center, and terminated, both ways, by the circumference. 
