 | Euclides - 1845 - 546 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... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1845 - 444 pages
...it to the circumference are equal to one another; 15. And this point is called the centre. 16. The diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through...centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. ' 17- A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter and the part of the circumference cut off... | |
 | William Templeton (engineer.) - 1845 - 210 pages
...The radius of a circle is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference, as OB. 4. The diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways at the circumference, as C 0 A. 5. A chord is a straight line joining any two points of the circumference,... | |
 | Nathan Scholfield - Conic sections - 1845 - 542 pages
...called the centre. 4. The distance from the centre to either focus is called the eccentricity. 5. Any straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the curve, is called a diameter. 6. The points in which any, diameter meets the curve are called the vertices... | |
 | Nathan Scholfield - 1845 - 894 pages
...called the-cen<re. 4. The distance from the centre to either focus is called the eccentricity. 5. Any straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the curve, is called a diameter. 6. The points in which any diameter meets the curve are called the vertices... | |
 | Nathan Scholfield - Geometry - 1845 - 506 pages
...called the centre. 4. The distance from the centre to either focus is called the eccentricity. 5. Any straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the curve, is called a diameter. 6. The points in which any diameter meets the curve are called the vertices... | |
 | Euclides - 1846 - 292 pages
...circumference, are equal to one another : xvi. And this point is called the centre of the circle. xvn. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through...centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. xvin. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter and the part of the circumference it cut off.... | |
 | Euclid, John Playfair - Euclid's Elements - 1846 - 334 pages
...circumference, are equal to one another. 12. And this point is called the centre of the circle. 13. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through...centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 14. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter and the part of the circumference cut off by... | |
 | Great Britain. Admiralty - Geometry - 1846 - 128 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 the centre, and terminated both wa\s XVIII. A semicircle is the figure contained by a, dia-meter and the part of the circumference... | |
 | Euclides - 1846 - 272 pages
...circumference ; to which from a certain point within the figure, all right lines drawn are equal. 16. That point is called the centre of the circle. 17. A diameter of a circle is a right line drawn through the centre, and both of its extremities terminate in the circumference. 18.... | |
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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 : 16. And this point is called the centre... 
