 | Johann Georg Heck - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1860 - 332 pages
...(fig. 71), as this axis is perpendicular or oblique to the bases A right cylinder will manifestly be generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides. On the convex surface of the cylinder, innumerable straight lines may be drawn, parallel to each other... | |
 | Samuel H. Winter - 1861 - 172 pages
...termed a right cylinder ; and, if the directrix be a circle, the cylinder will be the same as that generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides. 10. Def. — A conical surface is generated by a straight line, which, passing through a fixed point,... | |
 | Janes Boddely Keene - 1861 - 104 pages
...solid having for its ends two equal and parallel circles. Fig. 22. NOTE. — It may be considered as generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides. 46. A Pyramid is a solid having a plane figure for its base, its sides being triangles whose vertices... | |
 | Benjamin Theophilus Moore - Measurement - 1863 - 320 pages
...CURVE SURFACES. 81. To find the area of the surface, and the volume, of a circular cylinder. DEF. A circular cylinder is the solid generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides which remains fixed : this line is called the axis of the cylinder. From Lemma n. COr. 2, it will bo... | |
 | C. Davies - 1867 - 342 pages
...edge of the otherBOOK VIITHE CYLINDER, THE CONE, AND THE SPHERE1 A CYLINDER is a volume which may be generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides as an axisThus, if the rectangle ABCD be revolved around the side AB as an axis, it will generate the... | |
 | Daniel W. Fish - Arithmetic - 1874 - 300 pages
...uniformly curved surface, its ends being equal and parallel circles. 1. A cylinder is conceive:! to bo generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides as an axis. 2. The line joining the centers of the bases, or ends, of the cylinder is its altitude,... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Arithmetic - 1875 - 496 pages
...uniformly curved Karface, its ends being equal and parallel circles. 1. A cylinder is conceived to be generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides as an axis. 2. The line joining the centres of the bases, or ends, of the cylinder iu •ts altitude,... | |
 | Daniel W. Fish - Arithmetic - 1876 - 296 pages
...uniformly curved surface, its ends being equal and parallel circles. 1. A cylinder is conceived to be generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides as an axis. 2. The line joining the centers of the bases, or ends, of the cylinder is its altitude,... | |
 | George Elliot Voyle, G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson - English language - 1876 - 676 pages
...under several heads according to the work they are required to perform. Cylinder — A solid figure generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides, which remains fixed. Cylinder Gauge — An instrument used for gauging the dimensions of the barrel... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Conic sections - 1877 - 458 pages
...base. 33. A right cylinder with a circular base is called a cylinder of revolution, because it may be generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides as an axis. The cylinder treated of in Book X. is the cylinder of revolution. . • 34. The cone. Def.... | |
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A cylinder is conceived to be generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides as an axis. 
