 | William Herschel Bruce, Claude Carr Cody (Jr.) - Geometry, Modern - 1910 - 284 pages
...called a semicircle, as ABC; if equal to one fourth the circle, it is called a quadrant, as DA. 217. A chord is a straight line joining the extremities of an arc. AE is a chord. Every chord subtends two arcs, a major arc and a minor arc. The major arc is greater... | |
 | Architectural drawing - 1910 - 430 pages
...one-quarter of the circumference is called a quadrant. A quadrant may mean the sector, arc or angle. A chord is a straight line joining the extremities of an arc. It is a line drawn across a circle that does not pass through the center. A secant is a straight line... | |
 | Arthur Bradford Babbitt - Mechanical drawing - 1911 - 226 pages
...of the circumference is called a semicir cumference. The arc CKD, Fig. 87, is a semicir cumference. A chord is a straight line joining the extremities of an arc. See line EH, Fig. 87. A tangent is a straight line which touches the circumference of a circle but... | |
 | Frank William Bartlett - Mechanical drawing - 1911 - 216 pages
...of the circumference is called a semicir cumference. The arc CKD, Fig. 87, is a semicir cumference. A chord is a straight line joining the extremities of an arc. See line EH, Fig. 87. A tangent is a straight line which touches the circumference of a circle but... | |
 | Henry John Spooner - Geometrical drawing - 1911 - 196 pages
...terminated at both ends by the circumference. An arc of a circle is any part of the circumference. A chord is a straight line joining the extremities of an arc. A segment is any part of a circle bounded by an arc and its chord. A semicircle is half a circle, or... | |
 | Walter Burton Ford, Earle Raymond Hedrick - Geometry, Modern - 1913 - 272 pages
...of the circumference is called an arc (§ 2). One quarter of a circumference is called a quadrant. A chord is a straight line joining the extremities of an arc. A diameter is a chord that passes through the center. The angle between any two radii is called a central... | |
 | Walter Burton Ford, Charles Ammerman - Geometry, Plane - 1913 - 376 pages
...of the circumference is called an arc (§ 2). One quarter of a circumference is called a quadrant. A chord is a straight line joining the extremities of an arc. A diameter is a chord that passes through the center. The angle between any two radii is called a central... | |
 | Sheet-metal work - 1926 - 536 pages
...of the circumference, as ABE and CFD, Fig. 32. Fig. St.— Arcs and Chords. Fig. SS.— Sectors. 60. A Chord is a straight line joining the extremities of an arc, as AE and CD, Fig. 32. 61. A Sector of a circle is the space included between two radii and the arc which... | |
 | Joseph Ray - Arithmetic - 1857 - 340 pages
...point of contact Thus, TP is a tangent 21. An ARC of a circle is any part of the circumference. as A F. A CHORD is a straight line joining the extremities of an arc. 22. MENSURATION is the art of finding the surface, and also the solid contents of bodies. 23. The AREA... | |
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A chord is a straight line joining the extremities of an arc ; as AB. 
