 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1850 - 368 pages
...and its top terminated in a point or vertex. 8. A sphere is a solid, bounded by one continued convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be formed by the revolution of a semicircle about... | |
 | Charles Guilford Burnham - 1850 - 350 pages
...is a round pyramid, having a circular base. 8. A sphere is a solid, bounded by one continued convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be formed by the revolution of a semicircle about... | |
 | John Weale - 1850 - 590 pages
...frame at the top of a bed or canopy Sphere, in geometry, a globe, a solid contained under one uniform surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre of the sphere, and may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle... | |
 | Alexander Ingram - 1851 - 202 pages
...its two ends, and its upright sides trapezoids. 9. A SPHERE, or GLOBE, is a solid bounded by a curve surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within it called the centre. NOTE. A Sphere may be conceived to be generated by a semicircle revolving about its diameter. < 10.... | |
 | Daniel Leach - Arithmetic - 1851 - 280 pages
...inches ? MENSURATION OF SOLIDS. SECTION XLI. 374. A SPHERE, or globe, is a solid, bounded by a curve surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the centre. 37<5« The diameter, or axis, of a sphere is a straight Jine passing through the centre and both ends,... | |
 | Daniel Leach - Arithmetic - 1853 - 622 pages
...inches ? MENSURATION OF SOLIDS. SECTION XLI. k 374. A SPHERE, or globe, is a solid, bounded by a curve surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the centre. 375. The diameter, or axis, of a sphere is a straight line passing through the centre and both ends,... | |
 | Ezra S. Winslow - Business mathematics - 1853 - 264 pages
...half the parameter. A Sphere, or globe, is a perfectly round substance — a solid contained under a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. Its axis, or diameter, is any right line passing from a side through the centre... | |
 | John Brocklesby - Astronomy - 1855 - 394 pages
...very oval. 1. Eccentric, from ex out of , and centrum centre, (Latin) out of the centre. 19. A SPHERE. 'A sphere is a solid, bounded by a curved surface,...point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre; every line passing through this centre, and limited by the surface, is a diameter.... | |
 | Cornelius S. Cartee - Physical geography - 1855 - 348 pages
...horizontal line. 105. A triangle is a figure having three angles and three sides. 106. A sphere is a figure bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from the centre of the sphere. A hemisphere is half a sphere. The axis of a sphere is the line on which... | |
 | George Biddell Airy - Trigonometry - 1855 - 121 pages
...are collected in this section. (78.) A sphere is a solid bounded by a surface of which every point is equally distant from a point within it, called the centre. A. straight line drawn from the centre to the surface, is called a radius; if produced both ways to meet... | |
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A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center. 
