 | Euclid, John Playfair - Geometry - 1853 - 336 pages
...circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 14. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter and the part of t> circumference cat off by the diameter. .•:•:' : 15. Rectilineal figures are those which are... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - Science - 1854 - 534 pages
...centre. The radius of a sphere is a straight line drawn from the centre to any point in the sphere. IV. A straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the surface of the sphere, is called the diameter. PROPOSITION I. 'Every section of a tpliere made by aplane... | |
 | Thomas Lund - Geometry - 1854 - 520 pages
...measures the distance from the centre to the circumference is called the radius of the circle. Any straight line drawn through the centre and terminated both ways by the circumference is called a diameter of the circle. Thus, in the fig. here traced, the area or surface in the plane... | |
 | Euclides - 1855 - 270 pages
...is a straight line drawn through the centre, anc terminated both ways by the circumference. XVIII. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter...part of the circumference cut off by the diameter. XIX. [A segment of -a- circle is the figure contained by a straight line, anc the part of the circumference... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Logarithms - 1855 - 344 pages
...portion of the circumference. A semi-circle is half, and a quadrant onefourth 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... | |
 | Robert Rawson - 1856 - 178 pages
...circumference, are equal to one another. XVL And this point is called the centre of the circle. XVH. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. xvin. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter and the par* of the circumference cut off... | |
 | Mechanical engineering - 1855 - 420 pages
...of a circle is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference, as O B. 4. The diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways at the circumference, as CO A. 5. A chord is a straight line joining any two points of the circumference,... | |
 | Euclides - 1858 - 248 pages
...The straight lines from the centre to the circumference are radii. 17. A diameter of a circle is any straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways« by the circumference ; as AB, or DE, in the circle AD BE. A diameter is double of a radius. 18. A semicircle is the figure... | |
 | William E. Bell - Bridge building - 1857 - 250 pages
...radii are equal ; all diameters are also equal, and each diameter is double the radius. 37. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated on both sides by the circumference. In Fig. 17, CD, CG, ami CF are radii, and DE is a diameter. 38.... | |
 | Euclides - 1863 - 74 pages
...centre to the circumference are radii. 17. A diameter of a circle (diametros, a measure through), is any straight line drawn, through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference; as AB, or DE, in the circle ADBE. A diameter is double of a radius, (radius, the spoke of a wheel),... | |
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A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 
