 | Euclid, Charles Peter Mason - Geometry - 1872 - 216 pages
...position, so long as their inclination to each other is such as is stated in the definition. Def. XVII. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. It is obvious that the half of a diameter is a radius. Def. XXI. A... | |
 | Euclides, James Hamblin Smith - Geometry - 1872 - 376 pages
...Any straight line drawn from the centre of a circle to the circumference is called a RADIUS. XV. A DIAMETER of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre and terminated both ways by the circumference. Thus, in the diagram, O is the centre of the circle A BCD, OA, OB,... | |
 | James Smith - Circle-squaring - 1872 - 330 pages
...lines drawn from a certain point within the figure, called the centre of the circle are equal," "A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminating on both sides with the circumference." The circumference of a circle encloses a space,... | |
 | Henry Major - Student teachers - 1873 - 588 pages
...figure to the circumference are equal to one another. XVI. This point is called the centre. XVII. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. XVIII. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter and the part... | |
 | Lewis Sergeant - 1873 - 182 pages
...circle; and the straight lines drawn from the centre to the circumference are called radiuses.t 36. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both, ways by the circumference. 37. "When a parallelogram is subdivided into four parts by straight... | |
 | Euclides - 1874 - 120 pages
...circumference are equal to one another. 16. And this point is called the centre of the circle. 17. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated -both ways by the circumference. 18. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter and the part... | |
 | Euclides - 1874 - 342 pages
...circumference, are equal to one another. 16. And this point is called the centre of the circle. 17. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre and terminated both ways by the circumference. 18. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter, and the part... | |
 | Walter Smith - Blackboard drawing - 1879 - 392 pages
...equal to the opening of the compasses with which the circle was struck. Diameter of a Circle — -A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre* and touching the circumference on both sides. (.See p. 107.) Thus the diameter is double the radius. It... | |
 | Association for the improvement of geometrical teaching - Geometry, Modern - 1876 - 66 pages
...9. A radius of a circle is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference. DEF. io. h. diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre and terminated both ways by the circumference. [An angle is a simple concept incapable of definition, properly so... | |
 | Edward Atkins - 1876 - 130 pages
...l,raight line drawn from the centre to tho circuiufeivace "I a radius of the circle]. 1 7. A cliaittetcr of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 18. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter and the part... | |
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A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 
