 | Zadock Thompson - Arithmetic - 1828 - 238 pages
...semicircle is half a circle, or a segment cut off hy a diameter, ADB fig 17. The Height or Altitude ot n figure is a perpendicular let fall from an angle, or its vertex, to the oppnsite side, called the hase. A quadrant, or quarter of a circle is a sector having a quarter of... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 814 pages
...perpendicular to each other. A quarter of the circumference is also called a quadrant. Fig. 33. 38. The HEIGHT, or ALTITUDE, of a figure is a perpendicular...fall from an angle or its vertex to the opposite side or base. Fig. 24. 39. In a right-angled triangle the side opposite the right angle is called the HYPOTUENUSE,... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1831 - 660 pages
...circle which is bounded by an arc, and two radii drawn to its extremities. DEFINITIONS. В А~С 54. The Height or Altitude of a figure is a perpendicular...right-angled triangle, the side opposite the right angle |Ef:alled the Hypothenuse ; and the other two sides are called the Legs, and sometimes the Base and... | |
 | Arthur Parsey - Miniature painting - 1831 - 242 pages
...circle bounded by an arc and its chord. (Plate 3, fig. 16.) The height, or altitude of a sa pendicular let fall from an angle, or its vertex to the opposite side, called the base. (Plate 3, fig. 17.) When an angle is denoted by three letters, that which stands at the angular point... | |
 | William Grier - Mechanical engineering - 1832 - 366 pages
...are perpendicular to each other. A quarter of the circumference is sometimes called a Quadrant. 54. The Height or Altitude of a figure is a perpendicular...triangle, the side opposite the right angle is called the Hypothenuse ; and the other two sides are called the Legs, and sometimes the Base and Perpendicular.... | |
 | Edward Shaw - Architecture - 1832 - 402 pages
...its arc, and the two radii are perpendicular to each other, as G. 51. The height or altitude of any figure, is a perpendicular let fall from an angle,...its vertex, to the opposite side, called the base as a 6, at H. 52. When an angle is denoted by three letters, the middle one is the place of the angle,... | |
 | Peter Nicholson - Bricklaying - 1832 - 424 pages
...circumference for its arc, and the two radii perpendicular to each other. The height or altitude of any figure is a perpendicular, let fall from an angle...its vertex, to the opposite side, called the base. The measure of any right lined angle, is an arc of any circle contained between the two lines which... | |
 | William Grier - Mechanical engineering - 1836 - 384 pages
...perpendicular to each other. A quarter of the circumference is sometimes called a Quadrant. A. 54. The Height or Altitude of a figure is a perpendicular...triangle, the side opposite the right angle is called the Hypothenuse ; and the other two sides are called the Legs, and sometimes the Base and Perpendicular.... | |
 | Edward Shaw - Architecture - 1836 - 438 pages
...its arc, and the two radii are perpendicular to each other, as G. 51. The height or altitude of any figure, is a perpendicular let fall from an angle,...its vertex, to the opposite side, called the base, as ab, at H. 52. When an angle is denoted by three letters, the middle one is the place of the angle,... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1841 - 334 pages
...perpendicular to each other. A quarter of the circumference is sometimes called a quadrant, as A, B, D. f~\ 53. The height or altitude of a figure is a perpendicular,...its vertex, to the opposite side, called the base, as C, D. A *"" ' r»" B 54. In a right-angled triangle, the side opposite to the right angle, is called... | |
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The Height or Altitude of a figure is a perpendicular let fall from an angle, or its vertex, to the opposite side, called the base. 
