 | Sir Henry Edward Landor Thuillier - Surveying - 1851 - 826 pages
...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 the centre to the circumference, thus : CA is the radius of the circle ABDE. A Segment of a circle is the figure contained by a straight... | |
 | Janet Taylor - Nautical astronomy - 1851 - 674 pages
...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 from the centre of the circle to the circumference, as BD. An arc of a circle is any portion of its circumference greater... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Calculus - 1851 - 296 pages
...from a point within called the center. This bounding line is called the circumference of the circle. A radius of a circle is a straight line drawn from the center to the circumference. PROPOSITION I. — THEOREM. (33.) The equation of the circle, when the... | |
 | James B. Dodd - Arithmetic - 1852 - 410 pages
...called the circumference, all points of which are equidistant from a point within called the centre. The 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.... | |
 | James B. Dodd - 1853 - 398 pages
...called the circumference, all points of which are equidistant from a point within called the centre. The 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.... | |
 | Euclid - Geometry - 1853 - 176 pages
...15. The CENTER of a circle is a point within the figure equally distant from its circumference. 16. A RADIUS of a circle is a straight line drawn from the center to the circumference, 17. A DIAMETER of a circle is a straight line drawn through the center... | |
 | John Davis (of Providence, R. I.) - Circle-squaring - 1854 - 170 pages
...straight line passing through its centre, and extending in length to the extreme limits of the circle. The radius of a circle is a Straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference. The radius of a sphere is a straight line drawn from, the centre to the surface. An angle is the opening... | |
 | Mechanical engineering - 1855 - 420 pages
...diameters ; any circle twice the diameter of another contains four times the area of the other. 3. The radius 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... | |
 | William E. Bell - Bridge building - 1857 - 250 pages
...a point within, called the centre. 35. The circle is the surface bounded by the circumference. 36. A radius of a circle is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference. (The term radius is a Latin word, the plural of which it ruilii. Thus, we say one radius and two radii.)... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Conic sections - 1858 - 256 pages
...a point within, called the center. This bounding line is called the circumference of the circle. 2. A radius of a circle is a straight line drawn from the center to the circumference. A diameter of a circle is a straight line passing through the center,... | |
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A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 
