 A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.  An Elementary Geometry - Page 49by William Frothingham Bradbury - 1872 - 110 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Stoddard A. Felter - Arithmetic - 1864 - 428 pages
...that side produced ; as, EF, I^ier. 10. IJ I ". A Circle is a plane surface bounded by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre ; as, ABC D. 347. The Circumference of a circle is the curved line by which it is bounded ; as, ABC D. 348.... | |
 | Eli Todd Tappan - Geometry, Modern - 1864 - 288 pages
...circle. Hence, the 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 - 374 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... | |
 | George Augustus Walton - Arithmetic - 1864 - 368 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Henry Kiddle - 1868 - 300 pages
...bounded by lines is called a PLANE FIGURE. Pig. i. 10. A CIRCLE is a plane figure bounded by a curve line every point of which is equally distant from, a point within, called the centre. 11. The curve line that bounds a circle is called the CIRCUMFERENCE. 12. The DIAMETER of a circle is... | |
 | Edward Brooks - Geometry - 1868 - 288 pages
...pyramid may be inscribed in the frustum of a cone. 7. ASpHEREisa volume bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The distance from the centre to the circumference is called the radius. The diameter is a line passing... | |
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