 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1863 - 346 pages
...the parallel sides are 20 and 32 chains, and the perpendicular distance between them 26 chains ? 394. A CIRCLE is a portion of a plane, bounded by a curved line, called the circumference. Every point of the circumference is equally distant from a certain point... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Object-teaching - 1863 - 356 pages
...quadrilaterals. A Circle is a plane figure inclosed by a single curved line, called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. In popular language, however, the circumference itself is often called a circle. Circular. Semicircles... | |
 | Stoddard A. Felter - Arithmetic - 1864 - 412 pages
...parallel side opposite the base, or that side produced ; as, EF, Fig. 10. 346. A Circle is a plane surface bounded by a curved line, every point of which is...equally distant from a point within called the centre ; as, ABC D. 347. The Circumference of a circle is the curved line by which it is bounded ; as, ABC... | |
 | William Frothingham Bradbury - Plane trigonometry - 1864 - 324 pages
...the altitude of IJ K L. 33. A CIRCLE is a plane bounded by a curved line, called the circumference, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre ; as ABD E. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called... | |
 | Eli Todd Tappan - Geometry, Modern - 1864 - 288 pages
...following definitions : A CIRCLE is a portion of a plane bounded by a line called a CIRCUMFERENCE, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the CENTER. 146. Theorem. — A circumference is curved throughout. For a straight line can not have... | |
 | George Augustus Walton - Arithmetic - 1864 - 364 pages
...geography, navigation, and surveying. 184. A Circle is a plane surface bounded by a line, every part of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre. 185. The bounding line is called the Circumference of the circle. Any part of the circumference is... | |
 | George Augustus Walton - Arithmetic - 1864 - 376 pages
...lines op in the figures.) 448. A Globe or Sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every part of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre. SOLIDITIES AND CONVEX SURFACES. 449. The Solidity of a Parallelepiped equals theproduct of ils three... | |
 | Thomas Baker (C.E.) - 1865 - 174 pages
...round pyramid, having a circular base. 8. A sphere is a solid bounded by one continued convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. — The sphere maybe conceived to be formed by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter, which... | |
 | John Ogilvie - 1865 - 846 pages
...circle.] That wWc* goes round about or encompojMt*; a line: an orb or globe; a plane figure contained by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a poiut within the figure, called the centre; the line that bounds a circle, or the circumference ; a... | |
 | Henry Pallett - Flour mills - 1866 - 354 pages
...fly-v,hetli, etc., etc. A circle is a figure bounded by a curved line, called the circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre. The diameter is a straight line passing through the centre, and terminated both ways 'by the circumference.... | |
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A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center. 
