 | Marcius Willson - Object-teaching - 1863 - 356 pages
...quadrilaterals. A Circle is a plane figure inclosed by a single curved line, called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. In popular language, however, the circumference itself is often called a circle. Circular.... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1863 - 464 pages
...proportional quantities are proportionals. BOOK III. CIRCLE, AND THE MEASUREMENT OF ANGLES. DEFINITIONS. 1. 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. The bounding line is called... | |
 | George Augustus Walton - Arithmetic - 1864 - 376 pages
...astronomy, geography, navigation, and surveying. 184. A Circle is a plane surface bounded by ' * a line, every part of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre. 185. The bounding line is called the Circumference of the circle. Any part of the circumference... | |
 | George Augustus Walton - Arithmetic - 1864 - 364 pages
...principally in astronomy, geography, navigation, and surveying. 184. A Circle is a plane surface bounded by a line, every part of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre. 185. The bounding line is called the Circumference of the circle. Any part of the circumference... | |
 | Eli Todd Tappan - Geometry, Modern - 1864 - 288 pages
...definitions : A CIRCLE is a portion of a plane bounded by a line called a CIRCUMFERENCE, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the CENTER. 146. Theorem. — A circumference is curved throughout. For a straight line can not have more than... | |
 | Henry Pallett - Flour mills - 1866 - 354 pages
...far fly-v,hetli, etc., etc. A circle is a figure bounded by a curved line, called the circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre. The diameter is a straight line passing through the centre, and terminated both ways 'by... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1867 - 1204 pages
...up of all the sides of the polygon, is called the 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... | |
 | Rolla Rouse - 1867 - 228 pages
...is the 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... | |
 | Joseph Ray - Arithmetic - 1857 - 358 pages
...diagonal of the square. 19. A CIRCLE is a figure bounded by a curvo line, called the circumference, every part of •which is equally distant from a point within, called the center. A DIAJIETEK is a straight line passing through the center and terminated both ways by the circumference.... | |
 | John Fair Stoddard - Arithmetic - 1888 - 480 pages
...feet ? Ans, SFHE! R El S . 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 center. TJie Diameter of a sphere is a line passing through its centre and terminating in its surface. The... | |
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A circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center. 
