 | Popular educator - 1884 - 900 pages
...is a plane figure contained or bounded by a eurml line, called the circumference or periphery, which is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to tho circumference are equal to each other. This point Fig:. 6. Fig. 7. ii called the centre of the... | |
 | Colin Arrott R. Browning - 1884 - 274 pages
...trapeziums. This is practised in laud surveying. (23) A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines drawn from the centre to the circumference are equal. Every such line is called a radius. The Diameter is a straight... | |
 | Stewart W. and co - 1884 - 272 pages
...is the extremity of anything. XIV. A figure is that which is enclosed by one or more boundaries. XV. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, called the circumference, such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are... | |
 | Euclid, John Casey - Euclid's Elements - 1885 - 340 pages
...circle is a plane figure formed by a curved line called the circumference, and is such that all right lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another. This point is called the centre. xxxin. A radius of a circle is any right line drawn from the centre... | |
 | Euclides - 1885 - 340 pages
...circle is a plane figure formed by a curved line called the circumference, and is such that all right lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another. This point is called the centre. xxxm. A radius of a circle is any right line drawn from the centre... | |
 | Wellington Salop, old hall sch - 1885 - 204 pages
...only length and breadth." We next discover that "a circle is a figure contained by straight lines, and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within that circle are equal." We are sorry to say that the inventor of this forgot to draw a figure. We have... | |
 | Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching - Euclid's Elements - 1888 - 208 pages
...by one line, •which is called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines drawn front a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another. This point is called the centre of the circle. DEF. 2. A radius of a circle is a straight line drawn... | |
 | George William Usill - Surveying - 1889 - 306 pages
...circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such that all lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another. 8. Centre of Circle. — And this point is called the centre of the circle. 9. Diameter of Circle.... | |
 | James McCosh - Metaphysics - 1889 - 390 pages
...any length in a straight line ; " " There may be such a figure as a circle, that is, a plane figure such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure are equal to one another ; " and that " A circle may be described from any centre at any distance from... | |
 | Edward Mann Langley, W. Seys Phillips - 1890 - 538 pages
...Straight lines is called a triangle. 15. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such that all straight...within the figure to the circumference are equal. 16. This point is called the centre of the circle, and the straight line drawn from the centre to the... | |
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A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference, are equal to one another. 
