 | Mathematical association - 1884 - 146 pages
...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... | |
 | Colin Arrott R. Browning - 1884 - 274 pages
...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... | |
 | Euclides - 1884 - 182 pages
...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. The most important of all figures is defined first, although bounded by a curved line... | |
 | Euclides - 1884 - 214 pages
...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... | |
 | Stewart W. and co - 1884 - 272 pages
...circumference are equal to one another. XVI. This point is called 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Chauvenet, William Elwood Byerly - Geometry - 1887 - 331 pages
...0. 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | James William Nicholson - Arithmetic - 1889 - 408 pages
...points of which are equally distant irom a point within called the centre. The diameter of a sphere is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the surface. The radius is a straight line drawn from the centre to the surface. 445. To find the surface... | |
 | George William Usill - Surveying - 1889 - 306 pages
...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.... | |
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... is such, that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another : 16. And this point is called the centre of the circle. 
