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" A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. "
Elements of geometry, based on Euclid, books i-iii - Page 7
by Edward Atkins - 1876 - 119 pages
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A Practical Application of the Principles of Geometry to the Mensuration of ...

Jeremiah Day - Measurement - 1815 - 388 pages
...semi-circle is half, and a quadrant one fourth, of a circle. ,*., , • •('•• II. A Diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. A Radius is a straight line extending from the centre to the circumference. A Chord is a straight line...
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A Treatise on Surveying: Containing the Theory and Practice : to which is ...

John Gummere - Plane trigonometry - 1817 - 392 pages
...circle is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference, as CB, Fig. 17. 35. The diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference, as AE, Fig. 17. It divides the circle into two equal parts, called semicircles. * ' 36. A quadrant...
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Elements of Geometry and Plane Trigonometry: With an Appendix, and Copious ...

Sir John Leslie - Geometry - 1817 - 456 pages
...radius, and the boundary traced by the remote end of that line its circumference. 35. The diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. It is obvious that all radii of the same circle are equal to each other and to a semidiameter. It likewise...
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The complete measurer: or, The whole art of measuring, containing the ...

Thomas Keith - 1817 - 306 pages
...they are called regular polygons; if unequal, they are called irregular polygons. 34. The Diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated by the circumference both ways ; thus AB is a diameter of th« circle. The diameter divides the surface,...
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Elements of Geometry: Containing the First Six Books of Euclid, with a ...

John Playfair - Circle-squaring - 1819 - 350 pages
...are equal to one another. XII. And this point is called the centre of the circle. XIII. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. « XIV. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter and the part of the circumference cut off...
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The new practical gager

Matthew Iley - 1820 - 512 pages
...circumference, is equidistant from every part of the curve ; as C. 13. The diameter of a circle is a line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference ; as AB. 14. The radius of a circle is half the diameter ; as BC. 15. Any part of the circumference...
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The First Six Books with Notes

Euclid - 1822 - 222 pages
...another. 16., And this point is called the centre of the circle. 17.. A diameter of a circle is a right line- drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 18. A radius of a circle is a right line drawn front the centre to the circumference. 19. A semicircle is...
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Practical Essays on Mill Work and Other Machinery, Volume 1

Robertson Buchanan - Machinery - 1823 - 440 pages
...circumference. The word radii is used, when more than one such line is spoken of. 58. The diameter of a circle, is a straight line drawn through the...centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 59- The arc of a circle is any part of its circumference. 60. A chord of an arc, is a straight line...
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The New Practical Builder and Workman's Companion, Containing a Full Display ...

Peter Nicholson - Architecture - 1823 - 210 pages
...the circle. Thus, in Jig. 26, c is the centre, and cd the radius of the circle ab d. 36. The DIAMETER of a circle is a straight line, drawn through the centre, and terminated by the circumference ; as the line ab, fig. 27. 37. A CHORD of a circle is a straight line, drawn through...
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The Second [-fifth and Sixth] Part of A Course of Mathematics: Adapted to ...

Jeremiah Day - Geometry - 1824 - 440 pages
...of the circumference. A semi-circle is half, and a quadrant one-fourth, of a circle. II. A Diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference/ A Ifatlius is a straight line extending from the centre to the circumference. A Chord is a straight...
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