 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1837 - 376 pages
...THE CIRCLE, AND THE MEASUREMENT OF ANGLES Definitions. I/The circumference of a circle is a curve'! line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The circle is (.he space terminated by A. this curved line.* 2. Every straight line, CA,... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1841 - 288 pages
...SECOND. Of the Circle and the Measure of Angles. DEFINITIONS. 87. THE circumference of a circle is a curved line all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. The circle is the space terminated by this curved line.* Fig 4t,. 88. Every straight line... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Geometry - 1844 - 268 pages
...THE CIRCLE, AND THE MEASUREMENT OF ANGLES. DEFINITIONS. 1. The circumference of a circle is a curve line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The circle is the space terminated by this curve line. Note. Care should be taken not to... | |
 | J. M. Scribner - Measurement - 1844 - 130 pages
...of the two ends, measured upon the surface. 10. A Sphere is a solid, terminated by a curved surface, all the points of •which are equally distant from a point •within, called the centre. A sphere may be described by the revolution of a semi-circle about a diameter. 11. A radius... | |
 | Nathan Scholfield - Conic sections - 1845 - 542 pages
...GEOMETRY. SPHERICAL GEOMETRY. DEFINITIONS. 1. THE sphere is a solid terminated by a curve surface, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. G The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle DAE about... | |
 | Nathan Scholfield - 1845 - 894 pages
...GEOMETRY. SPHERICAL GEOMETRY. DEFINITIONS. 1. THE sphere is a solid terminated by a curve surface, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle DAE about... | |
 | Nathan Scholfield - Geometry - 1845 - 506 pages
...GEOMETRY. SPHERICAL GEOMETRY. DEFINITIONS. 1 . THE sphere is a solid terminated by a curve surface, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle DAE about... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1846 - 362 pages
...diameter by 3.14159. (Leg. 11. 5. Sch.) Note. — The circumference of a circle is a curve line, al1 the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The diameter of a circle is a straight line which passes through the centre, and is terminated... | |
 | Benjamin Peirce - Geometry - 1847 - 204 pages
...CHAPTER VIII. THE CIRCLE AND THE MEASURE OF ANGLES. 85. Definitions. The circumference of a circle is a curved line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The circle is the space terminated by this cqrved line. 86. Definitions. The radius of... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1847 - 426 pages
...Multiply the diameter by 3.14159. (Leg. V. 11. Sch.) Note. — The circumference of a circle is a curve line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within^ called the ce-ndre. The diameter of a. circle is a straight line which passes through the centre, and is terminated... | |
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A CIRCLE is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the center; as the figure ADB E. 
