 A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.  The Pupils' Arithmetic - Page 403by James Charles Byrnes, Julia Richman, John Storm Roberts - 1913Full view - About this book
 | Hiram Mattison - Astronomy - 1856 - 254 pages
...• c. i;. 18. ClBCLES AND ELLIPSES. A Circle is a plane figure, bounded by a curve line, every part of which is equally distant from a point within called the center. Concentric Circles are such as are drawn around a common center. The Circumference of a circle is the... | |
 | Thomas Solly - Free will and determinism - 1856 - 320 pages
...conceptions in the above instance united in the conception of the cause; the flight through the air in a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a certain imaginary fixed point and an imaginary straight line, are the representations united in the... | |
 | Sarah S. Cornell - Geography - 1857 - 420 pages
...magnitude of the radius. Definition of a Sphere. — A Sphere is a hody hounded by one continuous surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called its centre. Any line drawn from the centre to the surface is called a radiits. A line passing through... | |
 | Charles Davies, William Guy Peck - Mathematics - 1857 - 608 pages
...hyperboloids of one nappe. SPHiRE. [L. sphrcra. Gt. afaipa']. A solid or volume bounded by a surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. Or it is a volume that may be generated by revolving a semicircle about its diameter as... | |
 | William E. Bell - Bridge building - 1857 - 250 pages
...angles are those which have like positions in similar polygons. 34. The circumference of a circle is a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. 35. The circle is the surface bounded by the circumference. 36. A radius of a circle is... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Conic sections - 1858 - 256 pages
...III. THE CIRCLE, AND THE MEASURE OF ANGLES. Definitions. 1. A circk is a plane figure bounded by a line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the center. This bounding line is called the circumference of the circle. 2. A radius of a circle is a straight... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Calculus - 1859 - 320 pages
...become x=r cos. v, y=r sin. v. SECTION IT. ON THE CIRCLE. (32.) A CIRCLE is a plane figure bounded by a line, every point of which is equally distant from a' point within called the center. This bounding line is called the circumference of the circle. A radius of a circle is a straight line... | |
 | William E. Bell - Bridges - 1859 - 226 pages
...angles are those which have like positions in similar polygons. 34. The circumference of a circle is a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. 35. The circle is the surface bounded by the circumference. 36. A radius of a circle is... | |
 | John Williams (of Lancaster, O.) - English language - 1860 - 410 pages
...Of Curvilinear Figures. A CIRCLE is a plain figure bounded by a curve line called the circumference, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center. An ELLIPSE has the form of a flattened circle, and may be formed / by passing • a plane obliquely... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - Physics - 1860 - 468 pages
...one that changes its direction at every point; as, G H. 4. A Circle is a figure bounded by a curve, every point. of which is equally distant from a point within, called the Centre. Fig. 16 represents a circle, and E its centre. 5. The Circumference of a circle U the curve... | |
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