 | John Macnie - Geometry - 1895 - 390 pages
...circumference according as its distance from the center is less than, equal to, or greater than a radius. 163. A chord is a straight line joining the extremities of an arc ; as DE. The chord is said to subtend its arc. 164. A diameter is a chord that passes through the center... | |
 | George Watson Kittredge - Sheet metal working - 1896 - 448 pages
...the circumference, as ABE and CFD, Fig. 32. Fig. 32. — Ares and Chords. Fig. 33.— Sectors. 60. A Chord is a straight line joining the extremities of an arc, as AE and CD, Fig. 32. 61. A Sector of a circle is the space included between two radii and the arc... | |
 | George D. Pettee - Geometry, Modern - 1896 - 272 pages
...points at a radius distance from the centre. 131. An Arc is any part of the circumference ; as AE. 132. A Chord is a straight line joining the extremities of an arc; as BC. 133. A Radius is a line drawn from the centre to the circumference. The radii of a circle, or... | |
 | Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Co., Providence, R.I. - Gearing - 1896 - 182 pages
...hypothenuse or radius is unity. The rule should be carefully committed to memory. • t) f' hord °' an A Chord is a straight line joining the- extremities of an arc, and is twice as long as the sine of half the iingle measured by the arc. Thus, in Fig. 51, the chord... | |
 | Amos W. Plummer - Arithmetic - 1898 - 104 pages
...distance from the center to the bounding line, which is the circumference (bearing around). An arc is any part of the circumference. A chord is a straight line joining the ends of an arc. A diameter is one of the longest chords of a circle; it passes through the center.... | |
 | Webster Wells - Geometry - 1898 - 264 pages
...equal to one-fourth the circumference. Concentric circles are circles having the same centre. 147. A chord is a straight line joining the extremities of an arc; as AB. The arc is said to be subtended by its chord. Every chord subtends two arcs; thus chord AB subtends... | |
 | Seymour Eaton - 1899 - 362 pages
...called the circumference. Every point of the circumference is equally distant from the center. An arc is any part of the circumference. A chord is a straight line joining the extremities of an arc. A radius is a line drawn from the center to the circumference. A diameter is a chord passing through... | |
 | Webster Wells - Geometry - 1899 - 424 pages
...equal to one-fourth the circumference. Concentric circles are circles having the same centre. 78 D 147. A chord is a straight line joining the extremities of an arc ; as AB. The arc is said to be subtended by its chord. Every chord subtends two arcs ; thus chord AB... | |
 | Webster Wells - Geometry - 1899 - 450 pages
...one-fourth the circumference. Concentric circles are circles having the same centre. 73 x> contrary is 147. A chord is a straight line joining the extremities of an arc ; as AB. The arc is said to be subtended by its chord. Every chord subtends two arcs ; thus chord AB... | |
 | Alan Sanders - Geometry, Modern - 1901 - 260 pages
...composed of two radii ; therefore all diameters of the same circle are equal. An arc is any portion of a circumference. A chord is a straight line joining the extremities of an arc. A chord is said to subtend the arc whose extremities it joins, and the arc is said to be subtended by... | |
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An arc of a circle is any part of the circumference. A chord is a straight line joining the extremities of an arc. A segment is any part of a circle bounded by an arc and its chord. 
