 | Edward Albert Bowser - Geometry - 1890 - 414 pages
...the centre. A radius is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference. A diameter is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. Thus, in the figure, ABCDE is the circumference; the space included within the circumference... | |
 | Edward Mann Langley, W. Seys Phillips - 1890 - 538 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. 18. A Semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter and the part of the Circumference... | |
 | William Chauvenet - 1893 - 340 pages
...O. 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... | |
 | Henry Martyn Taylor - 1893 - 486 pages
...one centre. E A straight line drawn from the centre of the circle to the circle is called a radius. A straight line drawn through the centre and terminated both ways by the circle is called a diameter. It will be proved hereafter that three points on a circle completely fix... | |
 | Henry Martyn Taylor - Euclid's Elements - 1895 - 708 pages
...one centre. A straight line drawn from the centre of the circle to the circle is called a radius. A straight line drawn through the centre and terminated both ways by the circle is called a diameter. It will be proved hereafter that three points on a circle completely fix... | |
 | Thomas Aloysius O'Donahue - Mine surveying - 1896 - 184 pages
...straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference, as OC (Fig. 32). The diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference, as AB (Fig. 32). . An arc of a circle is any part of the circumference, as EDF (Fig.... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1896 - 784 pages
...[CKNTBS.] A straight line drawn from the centre of a circle to its circumference is called a radius, and a straight line drawn through the centre and terminated both ways by the circumference la called the diameter of a circle. The space enclosed within the circumference is called... | |
 | Andrew Jamieson - Steam - 1897 - 362 pages
...are equal to one another. This point is called tlie centre of the circle. A DIAMETER of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. A RADIUS of a circle is a, straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference.... | |
 | Henry Sinclair Hall, Frederick Haller Stevens - Euclid's Elements - 1900 - 330 pages
...circle is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference. 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 bounded by a diameter of a circle and the part of the... | |
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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. 
