 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.  Solid Geometry - Page 253by John H. Williams, Kenneth P. Williams - 1916 - 162 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Albert Wentworth - 1881 - 266 pages
...to the middle points of the opposite sides meet in a point. BOOK П. CIRCLES. DEFINITIONS. 160. DEF. A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the Centre. 161. DEF. The Circumference... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - Arithmetic - 1882 - 398 pages
...century did 1620 come ? ARC AND ANGLE MEASURES. 177. A Circle is a plane surface bounded by a curve, all points of which are equally distant from a point within called the center. The circumference of a circle is its boundary line. An arc of a circle is any part of the circumference... | |
 | Emerson Elbridge White - Arithmetic - 1883 - 374 pages
...called the Base, and the other the Perpendicular or Altitude. (Art. 370.) ART. 190. A Circle is a plane bounded by a curved line, all points of which are...equally distant from a point within called the center. (Art. 158, note 2.) The curved line which bounds a circle is its Circumference. ART. 191. The Diameter... | |
 | Geography - 1883 - 132 pages
...North-west. South-west. — 10. What is a compass ? CIRCLES OF THE EARTH. 11. A Circle is a flat surface bounded by a curved line, all points of which are...equally distant from a point within called the center. 12. The Circumference of a circle is the curved line that bounds it. 13. A Great Circle is one that... | |
 | Esmond Vedder De Graff, Margaret Keiver Smith - Teaching - 1883 - 324 pages
...possible, and describes.) T. Who can make the definition to suit that description? Ch. A space enclosed by a curved line, all points of which are equally distant from a point within, is called (T. give term) a circle. 59 Ch. The space is the circle. T. -(To circumference.) What is... | |
 | Daniel W. Fish - Arithmetic - 1883 - 360 pages
...vertex to the circumf. of the base. 478. A sphere is a body bounded by a uniformly curved face, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the center. The diameter of a sphere is a straight line passing through the center of the sphere, and terminated... | |
 | Daniel W. Fish - Arithmetic - 1883 - 348 pages
...parallel to the base. Frusiums. 478. A sphere is a body bounded by a uniformly curved face, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the center. The diameter of a sphere is a straight line passing through the center of the sphere, and terminated... | |
 | Samue Harris (D.D.) - Theism - 1892 - 606 pages
...these truths and laws. I have the idea of a circle as a portion of space inclosed by a line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the center. If I think of a line actually drawn in exact accordance with this idea, I think the figure thus described... | |
 | James William Nicholson - Arithmetic - 1885 - 348 pages
...ft., and the diameter of the base 2 ft. 8 in. 494. A sphere is' a solid bounded by a curved surface all points of which are equally distant from a point within called the center. The diameter of a sphere is a straight line drawn through the center and terminated both ways by the... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - Arithmetic - 1886 - 392 pages
...perpendicular to the middle of AB, § 347. FIG. 14. Fie. 15. CIRCUMFERENCES. 356. A circumference is a curved line all points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. 357. To trace a circumference, fix upon paper one of the points of the compasses open,... | |
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