 | Daniel Seely Gregory - Logic - 1881 - 236 pages
...revolution of a semicircle about its diameter as an axis. 21. A sphere is a solid or volume bounded by a surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. — WORCESTER. 22. Education is the training of the intellectual powers, principally... | |
 | Esmond Vedder De Graff, Margaret Keiver Smith - Teaching - 1883 - 324 pages
...Cylinder. MATTER. 1. An object that has length, breadth, and thickness, is a solid. 2. A solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point called the center, is called a sphere. 3. A hemisphere is half a sphere. 4. A straight line passing... | |
 | Benjamin Adams Hathaway - Arithmetic - 1885 - 190 pages
...Solid? It is the number of solid units it contains. 172. What is a Sphere? It is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center. 1 73. How find the convex SHI face of a prism or cylinder ? Multiply the perimeter... | |
 | Charles Davies, Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1885 - 538 pages
...of the cone, along lines which are called elements of contact. 12. A SPHERE is a volume bounded by a surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre. A sphere may be generated by a semicircle revolving about its diameter as an axis.... | |
 | Charles Henry Ham - Manual training - 1886 - 450 pages
...teacher says, " It is a sphere," with no better success. He adds, " A sphere is a body bounded by a surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre." The child's face is still expressionless. The teacher takes a handful of moist... | |
 | Christian Brothers - Arithmetic - 1888 - 484 pages
...is cut off by rallel to the base, the part remaining is called 281. A Sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the Centre. 282. A straight line drawn through the centre of a sphere and terminating at both... | |
 | W. V. Wright - Measurement - 1887 - 76 pages
...surfaces. The volume of a rectangular solid is the portion of space which it occupies. A solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre, is called a globe, or sphere. A cylinder is a solid figure described \>\ the revolution... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Rickoff - Arithmetic - 1886 - 688 pages
...Solid is a limited portion of matter having length, breadth, and thickness. 420. 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 circle which divides the surface of a sphere into... | |
 | William A. Campbell - Readers - 1887 - 224 pages
...is the distance from the vertex to the circumference of the base. A Sphero is a solid bounded by a curved surface every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center. The Diameter is a line passing through the center and terminating in the surface.... | |
 | William A. Morrison - Steam engineering - 1887 - 224 pages
...half the parameter. A Sphere, or globe, is a perfectly round substance — a solid contained under a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. Its axis, or diameter, is any right line passing from a side through the centre... | |
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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. The radius of a sphere is a straight line drawn from the center to the surface. 
