 | Sir Henry Edward Landor Thuillier - Surveying - 1851 - 826 pages
...figure called the Centre, thus : ABDE is the circumference and C the centre. The Diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated •*' both ways by the circumference, thus : AB is the diameter of the circle ADBE. The Radius of a circle is a straight line... | |
 | Euclides - 1852 - 152 pages
...the above figures A is the centre of the circle; B is not 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 of the circumference... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1852 - 436 pages
...sphere, any circular sector, as DCF) or FCAj describes a solid, called a spherical sector. 11. 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 the centre, and terminated,... | |
 | James B. Dodd - Arithmetic - 1852 - 410 pages
...described by revolving a semicircle ACB about its diameter AB — this diameter remaining unmoved. The radius of a sphere is a straight line drawn from the centre to any point of the surface ; and a diameter is a straight line passing through the centre, and terminated... | |
 | Euclides - Geometry - 1853 - 176 pages
...to one another. XVI. And this point is called the 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 b the figure contained by a diameter and the part of the circumference... | |
 | Royal Military Academy, Woolwich - Mathematics - 1853 - 400 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... | |
 | Euclides - 1853 - 146 pages
...to one another. XVI. And this point is called the 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... | |
 | James B. Dodd - 1853 - 398 pages
...by a curved surface, all points of which are equidistant from a point within called the centre. The radius of a sphere is a straight line drawn from the centre to any point of the surface; and a. diameter is a straight line passing through the centre, and terminated... | |
 | Euclides - Geometry - 1853 - 334 pages
...ABC, or DBC, &c. F is the centre ; and FA, FB, FC, &c., are radii. XVII. A diameter of a circle is any straight line drawn through the centre and terminated both ways by the circumference. XVIII. A semicircle is the figure contained by any diameter of a circle, and by either... | |
 | Henry Kiddle - 1854 - 154 pages
...is a straight line drawn through the centre, terminated both ways by the surface of the sphere. The radius of a sphere is a straight line drawn from the centre to the surface. Circles drawn on the surface of a sphere are of two kinds, great and small. Great circles are those... | |
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A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 
