 | Thomas Aloysius O'Donahue - Mine surveying - 1896 - 184 pages
...circle is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference, as OC (Fig. 32). The diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference, as AB (Fig. 32). . An arc of a circle is any part of the circumference, as EDF (Fig. 32). A chord of... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1896 - 784 pages
...[CKNTBS.] A straight line drawn from the centre of a circle to its circumference is called a radius, and a straight line drawn through the centre and terminated both ways by the circumference la called the diameter of a circle. The space enclosed within the circumference is called the area... | |
 | Andrew Jamieson - Steam - 1897 - 362 pages
...circumference are equal to one another. This point is called tlie centre of the circle. A DIAMETER of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. A RADIUS of a circle is a, straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference. A radius is therefore... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1898 - 614 pages
...manifestly real subjects ; eg : — 'A horse is a mammal.' ' Socrates died in the year 399 BC' ' A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre and terminated both ways by the circumference.' In such cases as these the grammatical is probably also the logical subject of the proposition. We... | |
 | Henry Sinclair Hall, Frederick Haller Stevens - Euclid's Elements - 1900 - 330 pages
...radius of a circle is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference. I. Def. 17. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. I. Def. 18. A semicircle is the figure bounded by a diameter of a circle and the part of the circumference... | |
 | Thomas Franklin Holgate - Geometry - 1901 - 462 pages
...Any straight line drawn from the centre to a point on the sphere is called a radius of the sphere. A straight line drawn through the centre and terminated both ways by the sphere is called a diameter of the sphere. The length of a diameter is twice the length of a radius.... | |
 | 1901 - 532 pages
...line drawn from any point in the curve perpendicularly to the axis is an ordinate to the axis. Any straight line drawn through the centre and terminated both ways by the curve is called a diameter. Ellip'sis, in grammar, the omission of one or more words, which may be... | |
 | Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching - 1903 - 342 pages
...radius of a circle is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference. DEF. 43. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre and terminated loth ways by the circumference. It follows from the definition of a circle that a point is within *... | |
 | G. F. Burn - Geometry - 1903 - 272 pages
...Practical Geometry, the circumference of a circle is also called the circle. A diameter of a circle is a line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. A radius of a circle is a line drawn from the centre to the circumference, and is equal to half the... | |
 | Euclid - Euclid's Elements - 1904 - 488 pages
...radius of a circle is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference. I. Def. 17. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. I. Def. 18. A semicircle is the figure bounded by a diameter of a circle and the part of the circumference... | |
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A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 
