 | Walter Marsham Adams - 1866 - 114 pages
...Circle; and secondly, to examine some of the various parts of these figures.. " A Circle," says Euclid, " is a plane figure contained by one line, which is...figure to the circumference are equal to one another. And this point is called the centre of the circle " (1.) (AB=AP.) The definitions correspond exactly.... | |
 | Edward Clarke Lowe - 1866 - 172 pages
...which is enclosed by one or more boundaries. 15. A circle is a plane figure contained (or bounded) by one line, which is called the circumference, and...figure to the circumference are equal to one another. 1C. And this point is called the centre of the circle. 17. A diameter of a circle is a straight line... | |
 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1866 - 434 pages
...product is the area. DD THE CIRCLE. Definition : — A circle J8 a plane figure bounded by one line called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines drawn from, a certain point within the circle to the circumference are equal to one another. This point is called the centre of the circle.... | |
 | Euclid, Isaac Todhunter - Euclid's Elements - 1867 - 426 pages
...is the extremity of any thing. 14. A figure is that which is enclosed by one or more boundaries. 15. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line,...figure to the circumference are equal to one another : 16. And this point is called the centre of the circle. 17. A diameter of a circle is a straight line... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1868 - 434 pages
...which is less than a right angle. XTTI. A term or boundary is the extremity of any thing. xrv. XV. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line,...all straight lines drawn from a certain point within tie figure to the circumference, are equal to one another. XVI. And this point is called the center... | |
 | Septimus Tebay - Measurement - 1868 - 168 pages
...10. An acute angle is less than a right angle. 11. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within it to the circumference are equal to one another. 12. And this point is called the centre of the circle... | |
 | Isaac Todhunter - Measurement - 1869 - 312 pages
...polygon which are not adjacent is also called a 15. A circle is a plane figure bounded by one lino which is called the circumference, and is such that...figure to the circumference are equal to one another: this point is called the centre of the circle. A radius of a circle is a straight line drawn from the... | |
 | Euclides, James Hamblin Smith - Geometry - 1872 - 376 pages
...less than a right angle. XII. A FIGURE is that which is enclosed by one or •'ore boundaries. XIII. A CIRCLE is a plane figure contained by one line,...CIRCUMFERENCE, and is such, that all straight lines drawn to the circumference from a certain point (called the CENTRE) within the figure are equal to one another.... | |
 | Popular educator - 1872 - 850 pages
...contained or bounded by a canal line, called the circumference or periphery, which is snch that aU straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to each other. This point Kg. 6. Fig. 7. is called the centre of the circle, and each of tho straight... | |
 | Euclid - Geometry - 1872 - 284 pages
...called acute. 14. A plane figure is a plane superficies, hounded on every side by one or more lines. 15. A circle is a plane figure, contained by one line, which is called the circumference; to which from a certain point within the figure, all right lines drawn are equal. 16. That point is... | |
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A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference, are equal to one another. 
