 | Elias Loomis - Conic sections - 1858 - 256 pages
...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... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1858 - 458 pages
...acres 1 rood 28 rods 24 yards 6.347 feet. CIRCLES. 627. A circle is a plane figure bounded by aline, every part of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre ; as AEFGBD. The circumference or periphery of a circle is the line that bounds it. A radius... | |
 | Dana Pond Colburn - 1858 - 288 pages
...column to the top of the spire ? 143. Solids. (a.) A SPHERE is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every part of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. (Fig. 1, p. 240.) (b.) A line drawn from the centre of a circle to the surface is called... | |
 | Anthony Nesbit - Measurement - 1859 - 494 pages
...called the axis or diameter of the sphere ; or it is a solid bounded by one continued convex surface, every part of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. . 14. The segment of a sphere is any part of it cut ofF by a plane. If the plane pass through... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1860 - 358 pages
...the distance from one of the lower corners to an opposite upper corner. ART. 289. A CIRCLE is a piano figure bounded by a curved line, every part of which is equally distant from a point called the centre. The circumference or periphery of a circle is the line which bounds it. The diameter... | |
 | Dana Pond Colburn - Arithmetic - 1860 - 388 pages
...in a straight line all the way ? 23O. Solids. (a.) A SPHERE is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every part of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. (6.) A line drawn from the centre to the surface is called a RADIUS, and a line drawn from... | |
 | John Williams (of Lancaster, O.) - English language - 1860 - 410 pages
...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... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1861 - 338 pages
...the distance from one of the lower corners to an opposite upper corner. Ans. 32.3-f- feet. ART. 289. A CIRCLE is a plane figure bounded by a curved line,...every part of which is equally distant from a point called the centre. The circumference or periphery of a circle is the line which bounds it. The diameter... | |
 | Alfred Newsom Niblett - 1861 - 204 pages
...called the axis or diameter of the sphere ; or it is a solid bounded by one continued convex surface, every part of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. EULE. Multiply the cube of the diameter by '5936, or the cube of the circumference by -016867,... | |
 | Joseph Hutchins Colton, Charles Carroll Morgan - Geography - 1863 - 608 pages
...plane, are everywhere | equally distant from each other. 4. A CIRCLE is a plane figure, bounded by a line, every part of which is equally distant from a point •within, called the center. 5. The CIRCUMFERENCE3 OF A FLAXE FIGURE is the line which bounds it. 6. A DIAMETEJ!5 OF A PLANE FIGURE... | |
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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. 
