 | Sir Henry Edward Landor Thuillier - Surveying - 1851 - 826 pages
...point within the same figure called the Centre, thus : ABDE is the circumference and C the centre. The Diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through...and terminated •*' both ways by the circumference, thus : AB is the diameter of the circle ADBE. The Radius of a circle is a straight line drawn from... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Geometry - 1851 - 418 pages
...portion of the circumference. A semi-circle is half, and a quadrant one fourth, of a circle. % II. A Diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the center, and terminated both ways by the circumference. A Radius is a straight line extending from the... | |
 | Euclides - 1852 - 152 pages
...centre of the circle. [In the above figures A is the centre of the circle; B is not the centre.] XVII. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through...centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. XVIII. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter and the part of the circumference cut off... | |
 | James B. Dodd - Arithmetic - 1852 - 410 pages
...radius of a circle is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference ; and the diameter is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. § 392. An arc of a circle is any part of the circumference ; and the chord of an arc is a straight... | |
 | Euclides - 1853 - 146 pages
...circumference are equal to one another. XVI. And this point is called the centre of the circle. XVII. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through...centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. XVIII. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter and the part of the circumference cut off... | |
 | Royal Military Academy, Woolwich - Mathematics - 1853 - 400 pages
...circumference are equal to one another. 16. And this point is called the centre of the circle. 17. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through...centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 18. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter and the part of the circumference cut otf by... | |
 | Euclides - Geometry - 1853 - 176 pages
...circumference, are equal to one another. XVI. And this point is called the centre of the circle. XVII. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through...centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. XVIII. A semicircle b the figure contained by a diameter and the part of the circumference cut off... | |
 | James B. Dodd - 1853 - 398 pages
...radius of a circle is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference; and the diameter is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 5 392. An arc of a circle is any part of the circumference; and the chord of an arc is a straight line... | |
 | Euclid, John Playfair - Geometry - 1853 - 336 pages
...circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 14. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter and the part of t> circumference cat off by the diameter. .•:•:' : 15. Rectilineal figures are those which are... | |
 | Euclides - 1877 - 58 pages
...is the extremity of anything ; and a figure is that which is inclosed by one or more boundaries. 25. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways liy the circumference. 26. A semicircle is a figure contained by a diameter and the part of the circumference... | |
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A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 
