 | George Payn Quackenbos - Arithmetic - 1872 - 350 pages
...used in connection with angles and parts of circles. 273. A Circle is a figure bounded by a curve, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the Centre. The Circumference of a circle is the curve that _A|bounds it. A Diameter is a straight line drawn through... | |
 | Eli Todd Tappan - Geometry - 1873 - 288 pages
...circle. Hence, the following definitions: A CIRCLE is a portion of a plane bounded by a line called a CIRCUMFERENCE, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the CENTER. 146. Theorem — A circumference is curved throughout. For a straight line can not have... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - Physics - 1872 - 472 pages
...changes its direction at every point ; as, G H. 4. A Circle is a figure bounded by a curve, every pomt of which is equally distant from a point within, called the Centre. Fig. 10 represents a circle, and E its centre. 5. The Circumference of a circle is the curve that bounds... | |
 | William Frothingham Bradbury - Geometry - 1873 - 288 pages
...diagonal as 1 : y/2; or the square described on the diagonal of a square is double the square itself. BOOK III. THE CIRCLE. DEFINITIONS. 1 , A Circle is...from a point within called the centre ; as ABD E. 2« The Badins of a circle is a line drawn from the centre to the circumference ; as С D. 3« The Diameter... | |
 | William Frothingham Bradbury - Geometry - 1873 - 132 pages
...the square described on the diagonal of a square is double the square itself. BOOK III. THE CIECLE. DEFINITIONS. 1. A Circle is a plane figure bounded...from a point within called the centre ; as ABD E. 2. The Radius of a circle is a line drawn from the centre to the circumference; as CD. 3. The Diameter... | |
 | William Alexander Myers - Circle-squaring - 1873 - 238 pages
...DEFINITIONS OF PLANE AND RECTILINEAI, SURFACES E H Of the Circle, see Plate 3. 1. A circle is a plain figure bounded by a curved line called the circumference,...every point of which is equally distant from a point withinAnd this point within is called the center A, F, C, B, H, D, G is the circumference and E the... | |
 | George Augustus Walton, Stanley Harry Holmes - Arithmetic - 1909 - 316 pages
...made up of an infinite number of triangles. CONE 286. A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the center. A straight line passing through the center of a sphere and terminating at both ends in... | |
 | Lorenzo Dow Harvey - Arithmetic - 1909 - 412 pages
...bricks are laid on edge. APPENDIX 331. CIRCLES A circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved liiie, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center. The circumference is the curved line that bounds the circle. The diameter of a circle is... | |
 | F. L. Sylvester - Machine design - 1910 - 376 pages
...supplement of ace. 14. A Circle is a continuous curved line, Fig. 11, or the space enclosed by such line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center. 15. The distance across a circle, measured through the center, is the diameter. The distance... | |
 | Charles H. Gleason, Charles Benajah Gilbert - Arithmetic - 1910 - 288 pages
...its diameter 8 feet at the base ? THE SPHERE 339. A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center. The diameter of a sphere is any straight line passing through the center and ending at... | |
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A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center. 
