 PERIPHERY of a circle is its entire bounding line ; or it is a curved line, all points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre.  Plane and Solid Geometry - Page 46by James Howard Gore - 1898 - 210 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Nathan Scholfield - Geometry - 1845 - 506 pages
...GEOMETRY. SPHERICAL GEOMETRY. DEFINITIONS. 1 . THE sphere is a solid terminated by a curve surface, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle DAE about its diameter DE;... | |
 | Nathan Scholfield - Conic sections - 1845 - 542 pages
...GEOMETRY. SPHERICAL GEOMETRY. DEFINITIONS. 1. THE sphere is a solid terminated by a curve surface, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. G The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle DAE about its diameter... | |
 | Nathan Scholfield - Conic sections - 1845 - 244 pages
...GEOMETRY. SPHERICAL GEOMETRY. DEFINITIONS. 1. THE sphere is a solid terminated by a curve surface, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. G The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle DAE about its diameter... | |
 | Francis Henney Smith - Arithmetic - 1845 - 300 pages
...sq. ft. OF THE CIRCLE. 243* A Circle is a plane figure, bounded by a curve-line, all of whose points are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The curve ACBD is the circumference ; 0 is the centre. The distance OD from the centre to the circumference called... | |
 | Francis Henney Smith - Arithmetic - 1845 - 710 pages
...sq. ft. OF THE CIRCLE. 243* A Circle is a plane figure, bounded by a curve-line, all of whose points are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The curve ACBD is the circumference ; O is jA the centre. The distance OD from the centre to the circumference... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1846 - 362 pages
...diameter by 3.14159. (Leg. 11. 5. Sch.) Note. — The circumference of a circle is a curve line, al1 the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The diameter of a circle is a straight line which passes through the centre, and is terminated on both... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1847 - 432 pages
...diameter by 3.14159. (Leg. V. 11. Sch.) Note. — The circumference of a circle is a curve line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The diameter of a. circle is a straight line which passes through the centre, and is terminated on both... | |
 | Benjamin Peirce - Geometry - 1847 - 204 pages
...CHAPTER XVIII. THE SPHERE. 415. Definition. A sphere is a solid terminated by a curved surface, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. 416. Corollary. The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle, DAE... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1848 - 432 pages
...diameter by 3.14159. (Leg. V. 11. Sch.) Note.—The circumference of a circle is a curve line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The diameter of a circle is a straight line which passes through the centre, and is terminated on both... | |
 | Charles Davies - Trigonometry - 1849 - 372 pages
...THE MEASUREMENT OF ANGLES. Definitions. 1. The circumference of a circle is a curved line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The circle is Ihe space terminated by this curved line.* 2. Every straight line, CA, CE, CD, drawn from... | |
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