 | William Findlay Shunk - Railroad engineering - 1890 - 360 pages
...includes one-quarter of the circle, and is the measure of a right angle. Each degree is further divided into 60 equal parts called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds. Degrees, minutes, and seconds are denoted by the symbols °, ', ": thus the expression 7° 22' 33"... | |
 | John H. Macke - Carpet laying - 1891 - 244 pages
...the circumference of a circle is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees; each degree is divided into 60 equal parts, called minutes; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. To find the diameter when the circumference is given. RULE. Divide the circumference by 3.1416. Example.... | |
 | William Shaffer Hall - Measurement - 1893 - 88 pages
...convenient unit is a right angle. The right angle is divided into 90 equal parts called degrees, and each degree into 60 equal parts called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds. Angles at the centre of a circle have the same ratio as the arcs which are subtended by them (Ww. Geom.,... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - Arithmetic - 1894 - 200 pages
...the centre and limited by the circumference, as AD, is called a Diameter. 129. Every circumference is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees; each...and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. TABLE. 60 seconds (") =1 minute, (' ). 60 minutes = 1 degree, ( ° ). 30 degrees = 1 sign, s. 12 signs... | |
 | Nathan Fellowes Dupuis - Geometry - 1894 - 313 pages
...practical purposes the right angle is divided into 90 equal parts called degrees ; each degree is divided into 60 equal parts called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds. 20 seconds and six-sevenths of a second, follows :— 51° 25' 42f". This is denoted as 42°. Theorem... | |
 | American School (Lansing, Ill.) - Algebra - 1902 - 80 pages
...degrees is measured by ^ of the circumference. 185. For accurate measurement each degree is divided into 60 equal parts called minutes and each minute into 60 equal parts ('ailed seconds. The symbols of degrees, minutes and seconds are °, ', ", respectively. To express... | |
 | American School (Chicago, Ill.) - Engineering - 1903 - 426 pages
...degrees is measured by ^ of the circumference. 185. For accurate measurement each degree is divided into 60 equal parts called minutes and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds. The symbols of degrees, minutes and seconds are °, ', ", respectively. To express 23 degrees, 47 minutes... | |
 | Walter Nelson Bush, John Bernard Clarke - Geometry - 1905 - 378 pages
...theorem may be stated thus : A central angle is measured by its intercepted arc. The circumference is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ;...and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. For brevity, an angle measured by an arc of 1° is called an angle of 1° ; etc. NOTE. — This division... | |
 | John Marvin Colaw, Frank Williamson Duke - Arithmetic - 1906 - 408 pages
...passing around the earth on its surface ? 444. In measuring circumferences, each degree is divided in 60 equal parts, called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. In this measure, degrees, minutes, and seconds are written with symbols. Thus, 3 degrees, 25 minutes,... | |
 | Sidney Luxton Loney - Hydrostatics - 1905 - 332 pages
...inconvenient unit of measurement on account of its size. We therefore subdivide a right angle into 90 equal parts called degrees, each degree into 60 equal...each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds. The symbols used for a degree, a minute, and a second are 1°, 1', and 1". Thus 10° 11' 12" means an angle... | |
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For this purpose it is divided into 360 equal parts called degrees, each degree into 60 equal parts called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds. The degrees, minutes, and seconds are marked thus ° ' " ; and 9° 18' 16", are read,... 
