 | Calvin Franklin Swingle, Frederick John Prior - Air-brakes - 1906 - 676 pages
...straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference as LM — Fig. 63. The diameter of acirde is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways at the circumference, as ALC. A chord is a straight line joining any two points of the circumference,... | |
 | Leonard Elliott Brookes - Machine-shop practice - 1906 - 664 pages
...a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference as LM— Fig. 63. The diameter of acirde is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways at the circumference, as ALC. A chord is a straight line joining any two points of the circumference,... | |
 | Henry Sinclair Hall - 1908 - 286 pages
...from the centre to the circumference. It follows that all radii of a circle are equal. 3. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre and terminated both ways by the circumference. 4. A semi-circle is the figure bounded by a diameter of a circle and the part of the circumference... | |
 | William Hughes - 1910 - 934 pages
...figure to the circumference are equal to one another. This point is the centre of the circle. A Diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre and terminated bolt ways by the circumference. A diameter cuts a circle into two equal parts, each of which is a Semi-circle.... | |
 | Thomas Aloysius O'Donahue - Mine surveying - 1911 - 288 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... | |
 | Edward L. Bates, Frederick Charlesworth - Geometry - 1912 - 648 pages
...device is employed to make such points conspicuous and more easily located by the reader. A diameter is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. FIG. 1. Thus, in Fig. 2, O is the centre of the circle; OA, OB, OC, are radii; AOB is a diameter. From... | |
 | Howard Whitley Eves - Mathematics - 1997 - 370 pages
...in both directions by the circumference of the circle. Such a straight line also bisects the circle. 18. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter and the circumference cut off by it. The center of the semicircle is the same as that of the circle. 19. Rectilinear... | |
 | R. H. Warn, John G. Horner - Technology & Engineering - 2002 - 292 pages
...are equal (Fig. 4). 13. And this point is called the centre of the circle (Fig. 4,0). 14. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference (Fig. 4, AB). 15. A radius is & straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference (Fig. 4, CA).... | |
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A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 
