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" When a straight line standing on another straight line makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of the angles is called a right angle ; and the straight line which stands on the other is called a perpendicular to it. "
Elements of Geometry and Conic Sections - Page 10
by Elias Loomis - 1849 - 226 pages
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The elements of plane geometry, from the Sansk. text of Ayra Bhatta, ed. by ...

Āryabhaṭa - 1878 - 100 pages
...subjoined B is an angle and is thus expressed : " Angle AB 0." A BC XVI. When a straight line standing on another straight line makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of these angles is called a right angle ; and the straight line which stands on the other is called a...
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Explanatory Mensuration

Alfred Hiley - 1879 - 228 pages
...sides AB, AC, but upon the extent or opening between the lines. XI. When a straight line standing upon another straight line makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of them is called a right A angle ; and the straight line standing upon the other is called a perpendicular to it. Thus if AB,...
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Euclid, books i. & ii., with notes, examples, and explanations, by a late ...

Euclides - 1879 - 146 pages
...which the lines meet is often called the vertex of the angle.] 10. When a straight line standing on another straight line makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of these angles is called a right angle ; and the straight line which stands on the other is called a...
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Moffatt's pupil teachers' course (ed. by T. Page). Candidates, 2nd (-4th) year

Moffatt and Paige - 1879 - 426 pages
...may be expressed by one letter at that point, as the angle at E. 10. When a straight line standing on another straight line makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of the angles is called a right angle; and the straight line which stands on the other is called a perpendicular...
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The Elements of Plane and Solid Geometry: With Chapters on Mensuration and ...

Isaac Sharpless - Geometry - 1879 - 282 pages
...When a straight line standing on another straight line makes the adjacent angles equal to each other, each of them is called a right angle, and the straight line which stands on the other is called a perpendicular. 9. An obtuse 1 angle is one that is greater than a right...
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First principles of Euclid: an introduction to the study of the first book ...

T S. Taylor - 1880 - 152 pages
...B.) A D DEFINITION OF RIGHT ANGLES. JTigr.J. Euc. Def. io.) — When a straight line, .standing on another straight line, makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of the angles is called a right angle. And the straight line •which stands on the other is -A. -0 .*...
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The Elements of Euclid for the Use of Schools and Colleges: With Notes, an ...

Isaac Todhunter - Euclid's Elements - 1880 - 426 pages
...equal to the angle CHG ; [I. 8. and they are adjacent angles. But when a straight line, standing on another straight line, makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of the angles is called a right angle, and the straight line which stands on the other is called a perpendicular...
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Practical Geometry for Second Grade Art-pupils and Private Schools

Thomas Newton Andrews - Geometry - 1881 - 168 pages
...falls upon the straight line AB, and makes ftigfif flight the angles on either side of it A/tgle Anq-/e equal to one another, each of ^ them is called a right angle, and the line CD is said to be perpendicular to the line A B. a Fig. 1. K Drawing Board 5_ ^ B I We read the...
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Class lessons on Euclid

Marianne Nops - 1882 - 278 pages
...(Lat. acutus, sharp). These are thus defined by Euclid : — 10. ' When a straight line standing on another straight line makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of the angles is called a right angle, and the straight line which stands on the other is called a perpendicular...
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Geometry for schools, comprising books i. and ii. of Euclid, with some ...

Euclides - 1883 - 176 pages
...(/. 8), and .-. L DCF = L ECF, and these are adjacent angles. But when a straight line standing on another straight line makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of the angles is called a right angle. .-. CF is at right angles to AB, and is drawn from the given point...
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