 | Euclides - Geometry - 1853 - 176 pages
...line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. XVIII. A semicircle b the figure contained by a diameter and the part of the circumference cut off by the diameter. XIX. A segment of a circle is the figure contained by a straight line, and the circumference it cuts off.... | |
 | Royal Military Academy, Woolwich - Mathematics - 1853 - 400 pages
...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 cut otf by the diameter. 19. A segment of a circle is the figure contained by a straight line, and the... | |
 | Euclid, John Playfair - Geometry - 1853 - 336 pages
...circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 14. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter and the part of t> circumference cat off by the diameter. .•:•:' : 15. Rectilineal figures are those which are... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - Science - 1854 - 534 pages
...radios is therefore half the diameter, or a semidiameter. XT. A semicircle is the figure contained hy a diameter and the part of the circumference cut off by the diameter. XYI. Rectilineal figures are those which are enclosed by straight lines only. xvn. Trilateral figures,... | |
 | Euclides - 1855 - 270 pages
...is a straight line drawn through the centre, anc terminated both ways by the circumference. XVIII. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter...of the circumference cut off by the diameter. XIX. [A segment of -a- circle is the figure contained by a straight line, anc the part of the circumference... | |
 | Robert Rawson - 1856 - 178 pages
...circle is the figure contained by a straight line, and the circumference it cuts off." XX. Kectilineal figures are those which are contained by straight...Trilateral figures, or triangles, by three straight lines. xxn. Quadrilateral, by four straight lines. XXIIL Multilateral figures, or polygons, by more than four... | |
 | Euclides - 1858 - 248 pages
...the circle AD BE. A diameter is double of a radius. 18. A semicircle is the figure contained by the diameter and the part of the circumference cut off by the diameter ; as ADBC A. The centre of the diameter forming one boundary of the semicir le, is the same with the... | |
 | Robert Potts - Geometry, Plane - 1860 - 380 pages
...circle is a straight line drawn through the center, and terminated both ways by the circumference. xvm. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter...lines. XXII. Quadrilateral, by four straight lines. xxm. Multilateral figures, or polygons, by more than four straight lines. XXIV. Of three-sided figures,... | |
 | Euclides - 1860 - 288 pages
...a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference, as BE. 21. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter,...part of the circumference cut off by the diameter. 22. Rectilineal figures are those which 'are contained by straight lines. 23. Trilateral figures, or... | |
 | Euclides - 1863 - 122 pages
...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 tho circumference cut off by the diameter. XIX. A segment of a circle is the figure contained by a... | |
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A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 
