 | Thomas Perronet Thompson - Euclid's Elements - 1833 - 168 pages
...drawn from the centre of a circle to the circumference, is called a radius of the circle ; and any straight line drawn through the centre and terminated both ways by the circumference, is called a diameter of the circle. When a circle is said to be described abont the... | |
 | Tobias Ostrander - Measurement - 1834 - 182 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 —... | |
 | Euclid - 1835 - 540 pages
...to one another. XVI. And this point is calledihe centre of the circle. 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 of the circumference... | |
 | Mathematics - 1836 - 488 pages
...equal to one another. 12. And this point is called the centre of the circle. 13. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 14. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter and the part of the circumference... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1836 - 394 pages
...any circular sector, as DCF or'FCII, describes- a solid, which is named a spherical sector. 10. The radius of a sphere is a straight line drawn from the centre to any point of the surface ; the diameter or axis is a line passing through this centre, and terminated... | |
 | Andrew Bell - Euclid's Elements - 1837 - 290 pages
...equal to one another. 15. This point is called the centre of the circle. 16. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 17. A line drawn from the centre to the circumference of a circle is called a radius.... | |
 | Benjamin Peirce - Geometry - 1837 - 216 pages
...generated l,y the revolution of a semicircle, DAE (fig. 177) about its diameter DE. 417. Definitions. 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... | |
 | John Playfair - Euclid's Elements - 1837 - 332 pages
...to one another. 12. And this point is called the centre of the circle. 13. A diameter of a circlets a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 14. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter and the part of the circumference... | |
 | Robert Simson - Geometry - 1838 - 434 pages
...one another : XVI. And this point is called the centre of the circle. xvn. . 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 of the circumference... | |
 | Euclides - 1838 - 264 pages
...will be no necessity to alter the phraseology of the work in this respect. XIV. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. XV. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter, and the part of 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. 
