 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - Arithmetic - 1850 - 314 pages
...certain point within it, called the CENTRE. An ARC is any part of the circumference. 35. The DIAMETER of a circle, is a straight line drawn through the centre and terminating in the circumference on each side. A Q. What is a Quadrilateral? 27. Parallelogram? 27.... | |
 | Janet Taylor - Nautical astronomy - 1851 - 702 pages
...line, as ABH, drawn through the centre of the circle and terminated each way by the circumference. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter...part of the circumference cut off by the diameter, as ADH, or AGH. The half circumference contains 180°. The radius of a circle is a straight line drawn... | |
 | Sir Henry Edward Landor Thuillier - Surveying - 1851 - 828 pages
...the same figure called the Centre, thus : ABDE is the circumference and C the centre. The Diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre,...and terminated •*' both ways by the circumference, thus : AB is the diameter of the circle ADBE. The Radius of a circle is a straight line drawn from... | |
 | Euclides - 1852 - 152 pages
...circle. [In the above figures A is the centre of the circle; B is not the centre.] XVII. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. XVIII. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter and the part of the circumference cut off... | |
 | James B. Dodd - Arithmetic - 1852 - 410 pages
...radius of a circle is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference ; and the diameter is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. § 392. An arc of a circle is any part of the circumference ; and the chord of an arc is a straight... | |
 | Royal Military Academy, Woolwich - Mathematics - 1853 - 400 pages
...circumference are equal to one another. 16. And this point is called the centre of the circle. 17. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre,...by a diameter and the part of the circumference cut otf by the diameter. 19. A segment of a circle is the figure contained by a straight line, and the... | |
 | Euclides - 1853 - 146 pages
...are equal to one another. XVI. And this point is called the centre of the circle. XVII. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. XVIII. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter and the part of the circumference cut off... | |
 | Euclides - 1853 - 176 pages
...are equal to one another. XVI. And this point is called the centre of the circle. XVII. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. XVIII. A semicircle b the figure contained by a diameter and the part of the circumference cut off... | |
 | James B. Dodd - 1853 - 402 pages
...radius of a circle is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference; and the diameter is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 5 392. An arc of a circle is any part of the circumference; and the chord of an arc is a straight line... | |
 | Euclides - Geometry - 1853 - 334 pages
...ABC, or DBC, &c. F is the centre ; and FA, FB, FC, &c., are radii. XVII. A diameter of a circle is any straight line drawn through the centre and terminated both ways by the circumference. XVIII. A semicircle is the figure contained by any diameter of a circle, and by either of the two parts... | |
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A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 
