 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - 1875 - 472 pages
...plane parallel to the base. THE SPHERE. 772. A Sphere is a body bounded by a uniformly curved surface, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the center. 773. The Diameter of a sphere is a straight line passing through the center of the... | |
 | Charles Scott Venable - 1881 - 380 pages
...THE CIRCLE, AND THE MEASUREMENT OF ANGLES. DEFINITIONS. I. The circumference of a circle is a curve line, all the points of •which are equally distant from a point •within, called the centre. The circle is the space terminated by this curved line. NB — Sometimes, in common... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - 1881 - 266 pages
...in a point. BOOK П. CIRCLES. DEFINITIONS. 160. DEF. A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the Centre. 161. DEF. The Circumference of a circle is the line which bounds the circle. 162.... | |
 | H. Bryant - 1881 - 574 pages
...of whose base is 10 ft. ? 76.5. Sj)licret>. — 1. A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the center. 2. The diameter or axis of a sphere is a line passing through the center, and terminated... | |
 | Franklin Ibach - Geometry - 1882 - 208 pages
...— . . cannot meet how far soever they a/ft J 29. A circle, is a plane figure bounded by a curve, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the Centre. The Circumference of a circle is the curve which bounds it. A Radius of a circle... | |
 | Samuel Harris - Philosophy - 1883 - 598 pages
...an expression of these truths and laws. I have the idea of a circle as a portion of space inclosed by a line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the center. If I think of a line actually drawn in exact accordance with this idea, I think... | |
 | Daniel W. Fish - Arithmetic - 1883 - 348 pages
...a plane parallel to the base. Frusiums. 478. A sphere is a body bounded by a uniformly curved face, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the center. The diameter of a sphere is a straight line passing through the center of the sphere,... | |
 | Daniel W. Fish - Arithmetic - 1883 - 360 pages
...the vertex to the circumf. of the base. 478. A sphere is a body bounded by a uniformly curved face, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the center. The diameter of a sphere is a straight line passing through the center of the sphere,... | |
 | National Telephone Exchange Association - Engineering - 1885 - 898 pages
...upon you with satisfaction — on you who remind him of Euclid's definition of a circle — "A curved line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre." No longer will some honeyed representative of illustrated journalism beg his photograph... | |
 | William Chauvenet, William Elwood Byerly - Geometry - 1887 - 331 pages
...parallelogram. BOOK II. THE CIRCLE. 1. DEFINITIONS. A circle is a portion of a plane bounded t>y t« curve, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within it called the centre. The curve which bounds the circle is called its circumference. Any straight line... | |
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A CIRCLE is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre; as the figure ADB E. 
