 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Geometry - 1863 - 504 pages
...English mathematician. BOOK VII. PLANES. — DIEDRAL AND POLYEDRAL ANGLES. DEFINITIONS. 388. A STRAIGHT line is perpendicular to a plane, when it is perpendicular to every straight line which it meets in that plane. Conversely, the plane, in the same case, is perpendicular... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Geometry - 1868 - 340 pages
...English mathematician. BOOK VII. PLANES. — DIEDRAL AND P0LYEDRAL ANGLES. DEFINITIONS. 388. A STRAIGHT line is perpendicular to a plane, when it is perpendicular to every straight line which it meets in that plane. Conversely, the plane, in the same case, is perpendicular... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Geometry - 1871 - 302 pages
...-•'£ u•iKOMKTKV. SOLID GEOMETRY. BOOK VII. PLANES AND SOLID ANGLES Definitions. 1. A STRAIGHT line is perpendicular to a plane, when it is perpendicular to every straight line which it meets in that plane. Converse!) , the plane in this case is per pendicular to... | |
 | William Chauvenet - Geometry - 1871 - 380 pages
...can contain three such points. PERPENDICULARS AND OBLIQUE LINES TO PLANES. 6. Definition. A straight line is perpendicular to a plane when it is perpendicular to every straight line drawn in the plane through its foot, that is, through the point in which it meets the... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1871 - 490 pages
...the diameter to the circumference. BOOK VI. PLANES AND POLYEDRAL ANGLES . DEFINITIONS. 1. A straight line is PERPENDICULAR TO A PLANE, when it is perpendicular to every straight line of the plane which passes through its FOOT; that is, through the point in which it meets... | |
 | William Frothingham Bradbury - Geometry - 1872 - 262 pages
...other two sides. (68.) BOOK IV. GEOMETRY OF SPACE. PLANES AND THEIR ANGLES. DEFINITIONS. 1. A straight line is perpendicular to a plane when it is perpendicular to every straight line of the plane which it meets. Conversely, the plane, in this case, is perpendicular to... | |
 | William Chauvenet - Mathematics - 1872 - 382 pages
...can contain three such points. PERPENDICULARS AND OBLIQUE LINES TO PLANES. 6. Definition. A straight line is perpendicular to a plane when it is perpendicular to every straight line drawn in the plane through its foot, that is, through the point in which it meets the... | |
 | William Frothingham Bradbury - Geometry - 1872 - 124 pages
...B. (23.) (II. 25.) BOOK IV. GEOMETRY OE SPACE. PLANES AND THEIR, ANGLES. DEFINITIONS. 1, A straight line is perpendicular to a plane when it is perpendicular to every straight line of the plane which it meets. Conversely, the plane, in this case, is perpendicular to... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Geometry - 1873 - 202 pages
...similar polygon within the same circle. 10 BOOK V.* PLANES AND POLYEDRONS. DEFINITIONS. M250. A straight line is perpendicular to a plane, when it is perpendicular to every straight line which it meets in that plane. Conversely, the plane, in the same case, is perpendicular... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Geometry - 1874 - 206 pages
...similar olygon within the same circle. 10 BOOK V,* PLANES AND POLYEDRONS. DEFINITIONS. M 250. A straight line is perpendicular to a plane, when it is perpendicular to every straight line which it meets in that plane. Conversely, the plane, in the same case, is 2>crpei><li>:iil<ir... | |
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A STRAIGHT line is perpendicular to a plane, when it is perpendicular to every straight line which it meets in that plane. 
