 | Robert Rawson - 1856 - 178 pages
...boundaries. XV. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference, are equal to one another. XVL And this point is called the centre of the circle. XVH.... | |
 | 1856 - 422 pages
...is a plane figure contained or bounded by a curve line, called the circumference or periphery, which is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to each other. This point is called the centre of the circle, and each of the... | |
 | W.E. WORTHEN - 1857 - 600 pages
...designations. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the tircwnference, and is such that all straight lines, drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference, are equal to one another. And this point is called the centre of the circle. The term... | |
 | William Ezra Worthen - Architectural drawing - 1857 - 632 pages
...designations. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines, drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference, are equal to one another. And this point is called the centre of the circle. The term... | |
 | John Weale - Architecture - 1859 - 622 pages
...thickness of solids. Circle, a plain figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to one anCHU CIRCULAR. С Г- А other, and this point is called the centre... | |
 | Euclides - 1858 - 248 pages
...point. DEMONSTRATION. — Def. 15. A 0 is a plane figure contained by one line which is called the ©ce, and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure (called the centre) to the ©ce are equal to one another. Ax. 1. Magnitudes which are equal to the... | |
 | Robert Potts - Geometry, Plane - 1860 - 380 pages
...boundaries. XV. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference, are equal to one another. XVI. And this point is called the center of the circle. xvn.... | |
 | James McCosh - History - 1860 - 512 pages
...to any length in a straight line;" "There may be such a figure as a circle, that is, a plane figure such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure are equal to one another;" and that "A circle may be described from any centre at any distance from... | |
 | James Smith - Circle-squaring - 1861 - 292 pages
...imagine," is a plane figure, enclosed by one line, which is called the circumference of the circle, it is such, that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference, are equal to one another. This point within the figure is called the centre of the circle.... | |
 | Henry Aldrich - 1862 - 380 pages
...the definition, that " a circle is a figure contained by one line which is called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another," involves the assumption that a line so drawn as to be always... | |
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A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such, that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another. 
