 | John Lee COMSTOCK (and HOBLYN (Richard Dennis)), John Lee COMSTOCK - 1846 - 506 pages
...last quarter. GLOBE. A round or spherical body, more usually called a sphere, bounded by one uniform convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. GNOMON. An apparatus used by the ancients for finding the altitudes and declinations of the celestial... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Conic sections - 1849 - 252 pages
...THE CIRCLE, AND THE MEASURE OF ANGLES. Definitions. 1. A circle is a plane figure bounded by a line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the center. This bounding line is called the circumference of the circle. 2. A radius of a circle is... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1849 - 336 pages
...and the diameter at the larger end 12 inches, and at the smaller end 6 inches ? THE SPHERE. ART. 348. A SPHERE is a solid, bounded by one continued convex surface, every part of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The axis or diameter of a... | |
 | John Weale - 1850 - 590 pages
...frame at the top of a bed or canopy Sphere, in geometry, a globe, a solid contained under one uniform surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre of the sphere, and may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter,... | |
 | Daniel Leach - Arithmetic - 1851 - 280 pages
...inches ? MENSURATION OF SOLIDS. SECTION XLI. 374. A SPHERE, or globe, is a solid, bounded by a curve surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the centre. 37<5« The diameter, or axis, of a sphere is a straight Jine passing through... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1851 - 332 pages
...cellar of the same size, having the length, width, and depth equal ? Ans. 13.92-f- feet. ART. 284. A SPHERE is a solid bounded by one continued convex surface, every part of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The diameter of a sphere is... | |
 | Alexander Ingram - 1851 - 202 pages
...its two ends, and its upright sides trapezoids. 9. A SPHERE, or GLOBE, is a solid bounded by a curve surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within it called the centre. NOTE. A Sphere may be conceived to be generated by a semicircle revolving about... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Calculus - 1851 - 300 pages
...cos. «, y=r sin. v. SECTION IT. ON THE CIRCLE. (32.) A CIRCLE is a plane figure bounded by a line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center. This bounding line is called the circumference of the circle. A radius of a circle is a... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1852 - 430 pages
...base. 9 x 30 -=- 3 = 9 X 10 = 90 feet. 9. A sphere is a solid bounded by one continued convex suriace, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. 10. To find the solid contents of a sphere, " Multiply the surface by one-third of the radius, and... | |
 | Ezra S. Winslow - Business mathematics - 1853 - 264 pages
...parameter. A Sphere, or globe, is a perfectly round substance — a solid contained under a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. Its axis, or diameter, is any right line passing from a side through the centre to the opposite side.... | |
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A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center. 
