 | Charles Guilford Burnham - 1850 - 350 pages
...round pyramid, having a circular base. 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,... | |
 | John Weale - 1850 - 590 pages
...the top of a bed or canopy Sphere, in geometry, a globe, a solid contained under one uniform surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre of the sphere, and may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle about... | |
 | John Weale - Architecture - 1850 - 584 pages
...the top of a bed or canopy Sphere, in geometry, a globe, a solid contained under one uniform surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre of the sphere, and may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle about... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1850 - 368 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,... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1851 - 374 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,... | |
 | James Robinson (Jr.) - Arithmetic - 1851 - 336 pages
...and the figure F, the frustum of a 7. A SPHERE, or GLOBS, 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.... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1851 - 372 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,... | |
 | John Fair Stoddard - Arithmetic - 1852 - 320 pages
...ton, a DECAGON ; that of twelve, a DODECAGON, &c. A CIRCLE is a plane, terminated by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the center. The curved line is called the drcuviference ч The RADIUS of a circle is a line drawn from its center to... | |
 | Thomas Kentish - Geometrical drawing - 1852 - 272 pages
...of twelve, a dodecagon. A triangle is sometimes called a trigon ; and a quadrilateral, a tetragon. A circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line called the circumference, which is everywhere equidistant from the centre. A right line passing through the centre, and meeting... | |
 | Thomas Kentish - Geometrical drawing - 1852 - 258 pages
...of twelve, a dodecagon. A triangle is sometimes called a trigon ] and a quadrilateral, a tetragon. A circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line called the circumference, which is everywhere equidistant from the centre. A right line passing through the centre, and meeting... | |
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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... 
