 | Marcius Willson - Object-teaching - 1863 - 356 pages
...quadrilaterals. A Circle is a plane figure inclosed by a single curved line, called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. In popular language, however, the circumference itself is often called a circle. Circular. Semicircles... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Stoddard A. Felter - Arithmetic - 1864 - 412 pages
...represents the frustum of a cone. 356. A Sphere is a solid, bounded by a convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre; as, Fig. 23. 357. A Spheroid is a solid, generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of -p-llr... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Frothingham Bradbury - Plane trigonometry - 1864 - 324 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Baker (C.E.) - 1865 - 174 pages
...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
...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... | |
 | 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
...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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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. 
