 | William A. Campbell - Readers - 1887 - 224 pages
...Ovoid. Oblate Spheroid. Prolate Spheroid. * LESSON CLXXXVII. Cylinder and Cone. A Cylinder is a solid generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides as an axis. The line which generates the Convex Surface is the Generatrix. The bases of a cylinder are circles.... | |
 | Isaac Hammond Morris - Geometry, Plane - 1890 - 440 pages
...cone is generated by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about its perpendicular. A cylinder is generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides. A tetrahedron is a solid contained by four equal equilateral triangles. An octahedron is contained... | |
 | Seth Thayer Stewart - Geometry, Modern - 1891 - 422 pages
...sides as an axis. 521. The cylinder of revolution is a right cylinder with circular base ; it may be generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides as an axis. . A right cross section of a cylinder or of a cone is a section made by a plane perpendicular... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Arithmetic - 1892 - 428 pages
...uniformly curved surface, its ends being equal and parallel circles. 1. A cylinder is conceived to be generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides as an axis. 2. The line joining the centers of the bases, or ends, of the cylinder is its altitude, or axis.... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Arithmetic - 1892 - 428 pages
...uniformly curved surface, its ends being equal and parallel circles. 1. A cylinder is conceived to be generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides as an axis. 2. The line joining the centers of the bases, or ends, of the cylinder is its altitude, or axis.... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Arithmetic - 1895 - 526 pages
...uniformly curved surface, its ends being equal and parallel circles. 1. A cylinder is conceived to be generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides as an axis. 2. The line joining the centers of the bases, or ends, of the cylinder is its altitude, or axis.... | |
 | Bothwell Graham - Arithmetic - 1895 - 240 pages
...prism is a solid described by the perpendicular movement of a plane. A cylinder is a solid described by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides as an axis. A cone is a solid described by the revolution of a rightangled triangle about its base or perpendicular... | |
 | John Macnie - Geometry - 1895 - 386 pages
...cylinder. 570. A right cylinder with a circular base is called a cylinder of revolution, because it may be generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides as axis. This side is then called the axis of the cylinder, and the radius of the base, the radius of... | |
 | Andrew Wheeler Phillips, Irving Fisher - Geometry - 1896 - 554 pages
...through the centres of all sections parallel to its base. 777* COR. II. A riglit circular cylinder may be generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides as an axis. 778* Defs. — For this reason a right circular cylinder is also called a cylinder of revolution.... | |
 | H. Holt-Butterfill - Mechanical drawing - 1897 - 232 pages
...by figures which are portions of plane sections of the first two primary ones. A Cylinder is a solid generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides as an axis. If ABCD, Fig. 145, be the rectangle, then if it be caused to revolve round AB as an axis, making... | |
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A cylinder is conceived to be generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides as an axis. 
