 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1867 - 1204 pages
...perimeter of the polygon.'* But, on the contrary, 'A circle is a plane figure, bounded by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre.'^ Now, here, as in all other works on Geometry, the polygon and the circle are defined as separate and... | |
 | Rolla Rouse - 1867 - 228 pages
...height or altitude. (235.) SPHERE OR GLOBE. Is a figure terminated at all parts by a surface, every part of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. (236.) SEGMENT of a pyramid, sphere, or other solid, is a part cut off the top by a plane parallel... | |
 | Edward Brooks - Geometry - 1868 - 284 pages
...a cone; and a frustum of a pyramid may be inscribed in the frustum of a cone. 7. ASpHEREisa volume bounded by a curved surface, every point of which...equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The distance from the centre to the circumference is called the radius. The diameter is a line passing... | |
 | Gustavus Sylvester Kimball - Business mathematics - 1911 - 444 pages
...acre? The Circle 338. A circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, called the circumference, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center. 339. The perimeter of any plane figure is the distance around it. The diameter of a circle... | |
 | Glenn Moody Hobbs - 1912 - 100 pages
...of a cone having an altitude of 21 feet and a base whose diameter is 15 feet. SPHERES 99. A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point...which is equally distant from a point within called the center. The diameter is a straight line drawn through the center and having its extremities in... | |
 | Jennings Cropper Wise - Artillery, Field and mountain - 1912 - 352 pages
...the frustum. bases, as triangular, quadrangular, hexangular, octangular, conical. SPHERES—A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface every point...which is equally distant from a point within called the center, A diameter of a sphere is a straight line SPHERE passing through the center and ending... | |
 | Seymour Eaton - Business - 1912 - 454 pages
...by six angular surfaces. The volume of a rectangular solid is the portion of space which 1 occupies. A solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of...which is equally distant from a point within, called the center, is called a globe, or sphere. A cylinder is a solid figure described by the revolution... | |
 | Edward L. Bates, Frederick Charlesworth - Geometry - 1912 - 648 pages
...See a, b, c, Fig. 1. 3. A circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line called the circumference, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre. The circumference is sometimes referred to as the circle when no reference is being made to the space... | |
 | Fletcher Durell, Elizabeth Hall - Arithmetic - 1912 - 404 pages
...SOLID FIGURES 319 Cone 176. A cylinder is a solid bounded by two parallel circles (called bases), and by a curved surface every point of which is equally distant from a line joining the centers of the two circles. 177. A cone is a solid bounded by a circle as a base,... | |
 | W. G. Wallace - Locomotives - 1912 - 660 pages
...70. A circle is defined as an area, or plane surface, boundtd by a line, called its circumference, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center. The distance from the center of the circle to the circumference is called the radius. A... | |
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A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center. 
