 | John Lee COMSTOCK (and HOBLYN (Richard Dennis)), John Lee COMSTOCK - 1846 - 506 pages
...GLOBE. A round or spherical body, more usually called a sphere, bounded by one uniform convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. GNOMON. An apparatus used by the ancients for finding the altitudes and declinations of... | |
 | John Lee Comstock, Richard Dennis Hoblyn - Astronomy - 1846 - 148 pages
...GLOBE. A round or spherical body, more usually called a sphere, bounded by one uniform convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. GNOMON. An apparatus used by the ancients for finding the altitudes and decimations of... | |
 | James Wharton - 1847 - 224 pages
...eleven; and a duodecagon of twelve sides. 34. A regular polygon has all its sides and angles equal. 35. A circle is a plane figure, bounded by a curved line, called the circumference, which is everywhere equi- A distant from a certain point within it, called the centre. 36. The diameter... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1847 - 336 pages
...round pyramid, having a circular base. 8. A sphere is a solid, bounded by onecontinued convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be formed by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter,... | |
 | James Robinson (of Boston.) - 1847 - 304 pages
...the figure F, the frustum of a cone. 7. A SPHERE, or GLOBE, is a solid, bounded by a convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be formed hy the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter.... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Conic sections - 1849 - 252 pages
...THE CIRCLE, AND THE MEASURE OF ANGLES. Definitions. 1. A circle is a plane figure bounded by a line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the center. This bounding line is called the circumference of the circle. 2. A radius of a circle is a straight... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1849 - 388 pages
...top terminated in a point or vertex. 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 may be conceived to be formed by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter,... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - Arithmetic - 1850 - 314 pages
...figure, is the entire distance round it; and is found by adding together all the sides that bound it. 34. A CIRCLE is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, called the Circumference or Periphery ; which is every where equally distant from a certain point within it, called the CENTRE.... | |
 | John Radford Young - Measurement - 1850 - 294 pages
...defined when we come to speak of those figures. It will be sufficient here merely to state that— 24. A CIRCLE is a plane figure bounded by a curved line called the circumference of the circle, which is such, that at every point of it, it is equally distant from a certain point... | |
 | James Robinson - Arithmetic - 1850 - 342 pages
...and the figure F, the frustum of a 7. A SPHERE, or GLOBE, is a solid, bounded by a convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be formed by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter.... | |
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THE CIRCLE. 464. 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. The diameter of a circle is a line passing through its center, and terminated... 
