| William Frothingham Bradbury - Plane trigonometry - 1864 - 324 pages
...the altitude of IJ K L. 33. A CIRCLE is a plane bounded by a curved line, called the circumference, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre ; as ABD E. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called... | |
| George Augustus Walton - Arithmetic - 1864 - 376 pages
...lines op in the figures.) 448. A Globe or Sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every part of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre. SOLIDITIES AND CONVEX SURFACES. 449. The Solidity of a Parallelepiped equals theproduct of ils three... | |
| Eli Todd Tappan - Geometry, Modern - 1864 - 288 pages
...following definitions : A CIRCLE is a portion of a plane bounded by a line called a CIRCUMFERENCE, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the CENTER. 146. Theorem. — A circumference is curved throughout. For a straight line can not have... | |
| George Augustus Walton - Arithmetic - 1864 - 364 pages
...geography, navigation, and surveying. 184. A Circle is a plane surface bounded by a line, every part of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre. 185. The bounding line is called the Circumference of the circle. Any part of the circumference is... | |
| Thomas Baker (C.E.) - 1865 - 174 pages
...round pyramid, having a circular base. 8. A sphere is a solid bounded by one continued convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. — The sphere maybe conceived to be formed by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter, which... | |
| Henry Pallett - Flour mills - 1866 - 354 pages
...fly-v,hetli, etc., etc. A circle is a figure bounded by a curved line, called the circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre. The diameter is a straight line passing through the centre, and terminated both ways 'by the circumference.... | |
| Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1867 - 1204 pages
...perimeter of the polygon.'* But, on the contrary, 'A circle is a plane figure, bounded by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre.'^ Now, here, as in all other works on Geometry, the polygon and the circle are defined as separate and... | |
| C. Davies - 1867 - 342 pages
...pyramid may be inscribed in the frustum of a cone7 A SPHERE is a volume bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centreThe distance from the centre to the circumference is called the radius- The diameter is a... | |
| Rolla Rouse - 1867 - 228 pages
...height or altitude. (235.) SPHERE OR GLOBE. Is a figure terminated at all parts by a surface, every part of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. (236.) SEGMENT of a pyramid, sphere, or other solid, is a part cut off the top by a plane parallel... | |
| Edward Brooks - Geometry - 1868 - 284 pages
...rectangles of the sides including those angles. BOOK IV. OF TJHE CIRCLE. DEFINITIONS. 1. A CIRCLE is a plane bounded by a curve line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. 2. The CIRCUMFERENCE is the bounding lino of a circle. An ARC is any part of the circumference; as,... | |
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