 | George Payn Quackenbos - Physics - 1862 - 468 pages
...one that changes its direction at every point; as, GH. 4. A Circle is a figure bounded by a curve, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the Centre. Fig. 16 represents a circle, and E its centre. 5. The Circumference of a circle is the... | |
 | Edward Brooks - Arithmetic - 1863 - 350 pages
...3 feet? J. • -, Ant. 5277.888cu. ft. THE SPHERE. X 503. A Sphere is a volume bounded by a curved surface, every point of which, is equally distant from a point within called the centre. 504. The diameter of a sphere is a line passing through its centre and ending in the surface.... | |
 | Eli Todd Tappan - Geometry, Modern - 1864 - 288 pages
...following definitions : A CIRCLE is a portion of a plane bounded by a line called a CIRCUMFERENCE, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the CENTER. 146. Theorem. — A circumference is curved throughout. For a straight line can not have... | |
 | William Frothingham Bradbury - Plane trigonometry - 1864 - 324 pages
...the altitude of IJ K L. 33. A CIRCLE is a plane bounded by a curved line, called the circumference, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre ; as ABD E. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts,... | |
 | Stoddard A. Felter - Arithmetic - 1864 - 430 pages
...that side produced ; as, EF, I^ier. 10. IJ I ". A Circle is a plane surface bounded by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre ; as, ABC D. 347. The Circumference of a circle is the curved line by which it is bounded... | |
 | Thomas Baker (C.E.) - 1865 - 174 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 maybe conceived to be formed by the revolution of a semicircle about its... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1867 - 1204 pages
...perimeter of the polygon.'* But, on the contrary, 'A circle is a plane figure, bounded by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre.'^ Now, here, as in all other works on Geometry, the polygon and the circle are defined... | |
 | John Fair Stoddard - Arithmetic - 1888 - 480 pages
...and whose altitude is 9 feet ? Ans, SFHE! R El S . A Sphere, or Globe is a solid, bounded by a convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within 'called the center. TJie Diameter of a sphere is a line passing through its centre and terminating in its surface.... | |
 | Stoddard A. Felter - Arithmetic - 1868 - 360 pages
...perpendicular to AB at its centre is called the minor diameter. 313. A Sphere is a solid, bounded by a convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre; as Fig. 22. 3 14. A Spheroid is a solid, generated by the revolution of an ellipse about... | |
 | John Fair Stoddard - Arithmetic - 1868 - 428 pages
...altitude is 9 feet? Ans. 183 cu.ft. SPHERES. 514. A Sphere, or Globe is a solid, bounded by a convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center. The Diameter of a sphere is a line passing through its centre and terminating in its surface.... | |
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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. 
