| John Fair Stoddard - Arithmetic - 1888 - 480 pages
...and whose altitude is 9 feet ? Ans, SFHE! R El S . A Sphere, or Globe is a solid, bounded by a convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within 'called the center. TJie Diameter of a sphere is a line passing through its centre and terminating in its surface.... | |
| John Fair Stoddard - Arithmetic - 1868 - 428 pages
...altitude is 9 feet? Ans. 183 cu.ft. SPHERES. 514. A Sphere, or Globe is a solid, bounded by a convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center. The Diameter of a sphere is a line passing through its centre and terminating in its surface.... | |
| Philip Thomas Main - Astronomy - 1868 - 224 pages
...few definitions and prove a few propositions relating to the geometry of the sphere. DBF. A sphere is a surface every point of which is equally distant from a point within it called the centre. It follows at once that every plane section of a sphere through the centre is... | |
| Eli Todd Tappan - Geometry - 1868 - 444 pages
...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... | |
| Edward L. Bates, Frederick Charlesworth - Geometry - 1912 - 648 pages
...See a, b, c, Fig. 1. 3. A circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line called the circumference, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre. The circumference is sometimes referred to as the circle when no reference is being made to the space... | |
| Jennings Cropper Wise - Artillery, Field and mountain - 1912 - 352 pages
...triangular, quadrangular, hexangular, octangular, conical. SPHERES—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 diameter of a sphere is a straight line SPHERE passing through the center and ending... | |
| Charles Leonard-Stuart - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1912 - 648 pages
...because the capacity of the eye for distant vision is equal in every direction. In geometry, a solid or volume bounded by a surface, every point of which is equally distant from t ~x>int within, called the center. Or h. is a volume that may be generated by revolving a semicircle... | |
| Seymour Eaton - Business - 1912 - 454 pages
...volume of a rectangular solid is the portion of space which 1 occupies. A solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the center, is called a globe, or sphere. A cylinder is a solid figure described by the revolution... | |
| Glenn Moody Hobbs - 1912 - 100 pages
...of 21 feet and a base whose diameter is 15 feet. SPHERES 99. 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 is a straight line drawn through the center and having its extremities in... | |
| Fletcher Durell, Elizabeth Hall - Arithmetic - 1912 - 404 pages
...vertex to any point in the circumference of the base. 178. 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 radius of a sphere is a line drawn from the center to any point of the surface. The... | |
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