 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1822 - 394 pages
...this movement, by the curve DAE, will have all its points equally distant from the centre C. II. The radius of a sphere is a straight line drawn from the centre to any point in the surface ; the diameter or axis is a line passing through this centre, and terminated... | |
 | Robertson Buchanan - Machinery - 1823 - 440 pages
...circumference. The word radii is used, when more than one such line is spoken of. 58. The diameter of a circle, is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 59- The arc of a circle is any part of its circumference. 60. A chord of an arc, is... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Geometry - 1824 - 440 pages
...circumference. A semi-circle is half, and a quadrant one-fourth, of a circle. II. A Diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference/ A Ifatlius is a straight line extending from the centre to the circumference. A Chord... | |
 | Peter Nicholson - Mathematics - 1825 - 1046 pages
...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. 1 8. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter and the part of a circumference... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1825 - 276 pages
...thus described by the curve DAE will have all its points equally distant from the centre C. 438. The radius of a sphere is a straight line drawn from the centre to a point in the surface ; the diameter or axis is a line passing through the centre and terminated each... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre, John Farrar - Geometry - 1825 - 280 pages
...thus described by the curve DAE will have all its points equally distant from the centre C. 438. The radius of a sphere is a straight line drawn from the centre to a point in the surface ; the diameter or axis is a line passing through the centre and terminated each... | |
 | George Lees - 1826 - 276 pages
...by the remote end of that line its circumference. ELEMENTS Book I. XIV.— The diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. Cor. All radii of the same circle are equal to each other, and to a semi-diameter. XV.... | |
 | John Playfair - Geometry - 1829 - 210 pages
...lines drawn from the centre to the circumference are equal to one another. 21. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference; and a radius is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference. 22. A semicircle... | |
 | Ira Wanzer - Arithmetic - 1831 - 408 pages
...equally distant from a certain point within the circle, called the centre. The diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 21. An ellipse, or ellipsis, is an oval , figure, resembling a circle, only the length... | |
 | Tobias Ostrander - Measurement - 1833 - 172 pages
...of that circumference. A semicircle is half, and a quadrant is a quarter of a circle. The diameter is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. PROBLEM I. To find the circumference of a circle, the diameter being given. Rule—Multiply... | |
| |
A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 
