 | William Mitchell Gillespie - Surveying - 1896 - 592 pages
...same radius. Every circumference is regarded as being divided into 360 equal parts, culled degrees. Each degree is divided into 60 equal parts, called minutes, and each minute into 60 seconds. These divisions are indicated by the murks ° ' ". Thus 28 degrees, 17 minutes, and... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - Bookkeeping - 1899 - 650 pages
...it, called the equator. The equator is divided into 360 equal parts called degrees (see Table XV) ; each degree is divided into 60 equal parts, called minutes; and each minute is again divided into 60 equal parts, called seconds. Through each point of division a circle, called... | |
 | Seymour Eaton - 1899 - 362 pages
...circle is called its circumference. The circumference is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees. Each degree is divided into 60 equal parts, called minutes; and each minute into 6O equal parts, called seconds. One-fourth of a circle is called a quadrant, or right angle, and... | |
 | Eugene L. Dubbs - Arithmetic - 1901 - 462 pages
...line that bounds it. For purposes of measurement it is divided into 360 equal parts called degrees ; each degree is divided into 60 equal parts called minutes ; and each minute into (J0 equal parts called seconds. 60 seconds (") = 1 minute . . . '. 60 minutes = 1 degree . . .... | |
 | American School (Lansing, Ill.) - Algebra - 1902 - 80 pages
...— 60. An angle of 45 degrees is measured by ^ of the circumference. 185. For accurate measurement each degree is divided into 60 equal parts called minutes and each minute into 60 equal parts ('ailed seconds. The symbols of degrees, minutes and seconds are °, ', ", respectively.... | |
 | American School (Chicago, Ill.) - Engineering - 1903 - 426 pages
...a|u = 60. An angle of 45 degrees is measured by ^ of the circumference. 185. For accurate measurement each degree is divided into 60 equal parts called minutes and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds. The symbols of degrees, minutes and seconds are °, ', ", respectively.... | |
 | American School (Lansing, Ill.) - Architectural drawing - 1906 - 426 pages
...culled degrees. Thus we can say that an angle contains 45 degrees, which means that it is •£fa = I of a circumference. In order to obtain accurate measurements...parts called minutes and each minute is divided into 6O equal parts called seconds. Angles and arcs are usually measured by means of an instrument called... | |
 | Erwin Herrick Schuyler, James Hixon Van Sickle - Arithmetic - 1906 - 216 pages
...that every circumference is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees. Now we must learn that every degree is divided into 60 equal parts, called minutes,...minute is divided into 60 equal parts, called seconds. Thus we have the table of CIRCULAR (OR ANGULAR) MEASURE The imaginary lines on the earth's surface... | |
 | American School (Chicago, Ill.) - Engineering - 1906 - 580 pages
...parts called degrees. Thus we can say that an angle contains 45 degrees, which means that it is ^g. = | of a circumference. In order to obtain accurate measurements each degree is divided into GO equal parts called minutes and each minute is divided into 6O equal parts called seconds. Angles... | |
 | American School (Lansing, Ill.) - Architecture - 1907 - 360 pages
...called degrees. Thus we can say that an angle contains 45 degrees, which means, that it is -£^ -= \ of a circumference. In order to obtain accurate measurements each, degree is divided into GO equal parts called minutes and each minute is divided into GO equal parts called seconds. Angles... | |
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In order to obtain accurate measurements each degree is divided into 60 equal parts called minutes and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds. 
