 | William Henry Harrison Phillips - Geometry - 1878 - 236 pages
...tangent plane. DEF. 5. A right cylinder is one whose elements are perpendicular to its base. It may be generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides. This side is the axis of the cylinder. The opposite side generates the curved surface ; and the other... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - 1875 - 472 pages
...uniformly curved surface, its ends being equal and parallel circles. 1. A cylinder is conceived to be generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides as an axis. 2. The line joining the centres of the bases, or ends, of the cylinder is Ita altitude,... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - Geometry - 1883 - 326 pages
...Cylinder > is one whose elements are perpendicular to its bases. We may conceive a right cylinder to be generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides as an -axis. 11. An Oblique Cylinder is one whose elements are oblique to its bases. 12. Similar Right... | |
 | William A. Campbell - Readers - 1887 - 224 pages
...Ovoid. Oblate Spheroid. Prolate Spheroid. * LESSON CLXXXVII. Cylinder and Cone. A Cylinder is a solid generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides as an axis. The line which generates the Convex Surface is the Generatrix. The bases of a cylinder... | |
 | Isaac Hammond Morris - Geometry, Plane - 1890 - 440 pages
...cone is generated by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about its perpendicular. A cylinder is generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides. A tetrahedron is a solid contained by four equal equilateral triangles. An octahedron is contained... | |
 | Seth Thayer Stewart - Geometry, Modern - 1891 - 422 pages
...sides as an axis. 521. The cylinder of revolution is a right cylinder with circular base ; it may be generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides as an axis. . A right cross section of a cylinder or of a cone is a section made by a plane perpendicular... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Arithmetic - 1892 - 428 pages
...uniformly curved surface, its ends being equal and parallel circles. 1. A cylinder is conceived to be generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides as an axis. 2. The line joining the centers of the bases, or ends, of the cylinder is its altitude,... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Arithmetic - 1892 - 428 pages
...uniformly curved surface, its ends being equal and parallel circles. 1. A cylinder is conceived to be generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides as an axis. 2. The line joining the centers of the bases, or ends, of the cylinder is its altitude,... | |
 | John Macnie - Geometry - 1895 - 386 pages
...cylinder. 570. A right cylinder with a circular base is called a cylinder of revolution, because it may be generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides as axis. This side is then called the axis of the cylinder, and the radius of the base, the radius... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Arithmetic - 1895 - 526 pages
...uniformly curved surface, its ends being equal and parallel circles. 1. A cylinder is conceived to be generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides as an axis. 2. The line joining the centers of the bases, or ends, of the cylinder is its altitude,... | |
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A cylinder is conceived to be generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides as an axis. 
