 | Mathematical association - 1884 - 146 pages
...circle is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference. DEF. 43. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre and terminated both ways by the circumference. DEF. 44. If any and every point on a l1ne, part of a line, or group of lines (straight... | |
 | Association for the improvement of geometrical teaching - Geometry, Modern - 1884 - 150 pages
...circle is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference. DEF. 43. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre and terminated both ways by the circumference. It follows from the definition of a circle that a point is within * NOTE. — Euclid... | |
 | Colin Arrott R. Browning - 1884 - 274 pages
...drawn from the centre to the circumference are equal. Every such line is called a radius. The Diameter is a straight line drawn through the centre and terminated both ways by the circumference. The relation between the diameter and the circumference of a circle is expressed by... | |
 | William John M'Clelland - 1885 - 182 pages
...Centre. Any straight line drawn from the centre of a sphere to the surface is called a Radius, and any straight line drawn through the centre and terminated both ways by the surface is called a Diameter. A sphere may be generated by the revolution of a semicircle round its diameter.... | |
 | Charles Davies, Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1885 - 538 pages
...centre. A sphere may be generated by a semicircle revolving about its diameter as an axis. 13. A RADIU8 of a sphere is a straight line drawn from the centre to any point of the surface. A DIAMETER is a straight line through the centre, limited by the surface.... | |
 | William Chauvenet, William Elwood Byerly - Geometry - 1887 - 331 pages
...A radius of the sphere is any straight line drawn from the centre to the surface. A diameter is any straight line drawn through the centre and terminated both ways by the surface. Since all the radii are equal and every diameter is double the radius, all the diameters are equal.... | |
 | Nathaniel Bowditch - Nautical astronomy - 1888 - 704 pages
...sphere. The straight line which joins any point of the surface with the centre is called a radius. A straight line drawn through the centre and terminated both ways by the surface is called a diameter. The section of the surface of a sphere made by any plane is called a circle.... | |
 | George William Usill - Surveying - 1889 - 306 pages
...this point is called the centre of the circle. 9. Diameter of Circle. — The diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. Note. — The radius of a circle is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference.... | |
 | Edward Mann Langley, W. Seys Phillips - 1890 - 538 pages
...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 of the Circumference... | |
 | Edward Albert Bowser - Geometry - 1890 - 418 pages
...called the centre. A radius is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference. A diameter is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. Thus, in the figure, ABCDE is the circumference; the space included within the circumference... | |
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A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 
