CIRCLE is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre; as the figure ADB E. Elements of Geometry - Page xvby Andrew Wheeler Phillips, Irving Fisher - 1896 - 540 pagesFull view - About this book
| Franklin Ibach - Geometry - 1882 - 208 pages
...they a/í> f ELEMENTS OF PLANE GEOMETRY. 29. A circle is a plane figure bounded by a curve, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The circumference of a circle is the curve which bounds it. A Radius of a circle is a line extending from... | |
| Franklin Ibach - Geometry - 1882 - 208 pages
...GEOMETRY. BOOK III. THE CIRCLE. DEFINITIONS. 172. A Circle, is a plane bounded by a curve, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. A( The Circumference, of a circle is the curve which bounds it. An Arc is a part of the circumference... | |
| Charles Davies, Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1885 - 538 pages
...DEFINITIONS. 1. A CIRCLE is a plane ligure, bounded by a' curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The bounding line is called the circumference. 2. A RADIU8 is a straight line drawn from the centre to any point of the circumference. 3. A DIAMETER... | |
| National Telephone Exchange Association - Engineering - 1885 - 898 pages
...satisfaction — on you who remind him of Euclid's definition of a circle — "A curved line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre." No longer will some honeyed representative of illustrated journalism beg his photograph in order to... | |
| Webster Wells - Geometry - 1886 - 392 pages
...section is a circle. THE SPHERE. DEFINITIONS. 616. A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, all •points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. A radius of a sphere is a straight line drawn from the centre to the surface, and a diameter is a straight... | |
| George Albert Wentworth - Arithmetic - 1886 - 392 pages
...the middle of AB, § 347. FIG. 14. Fie. 15. CIRCUMFERENCES. 356. A circumference is a curved line all points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. 357. To trace a circumference, fix upon paper one of the points of the compasses open, and turn the... | |
| Frank Eugene Kidder - Architecture - 1886 - 640 pages
...part of it by a plane parallel to the base. A sphere is a volume bounded by a curved sin-face, all points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. treats of the measurement of lines, surface*. "Fig. 21 .Mensuration find rolumes. RULES. To compute,... | |
| William Chauvenet, William Elwood Byerly - Geometry - 1887 - 331 pages
...the element of contact. THE SPHERE. 19. Definition. A sphere is a solid bounded by a surface all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. A sphere may be generated by the revolution of a semicircle ABC about its diameter AC as an axis; for... | |
| George Albert Wentworth, George Anthony Hill - Arithmetic - 1887 - 448 pages
...does the chimney contain ? ARITHMETICAL EXERCISES. A Sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface all points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. A straight line drawn from the centre to the surface is called a radius, and a straight line drawn... | |
| George Albert Wentworth - Geometry - 1888 - 272 pages
...DEFINITIONS. 210. A circle is a portion of a plane bounded by a curved line called a circumference, all points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. 211. A radius is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference ; and a diameter is a straight... | |
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