| Dana Pond Colburn - Arithmetic - 1855 - 396 pages
...straight line all the way ? 23O. Solids. (a.) A SPHERE is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every part of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. (6.) A line drawn from the centre to the surface is called a RADIUS, and a line drawn from any point... | |
| John Fair Stoddard - Arithmetic - 1856 - 312 pages
...ten, 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 centre. The curved line is called the circumference. The DIAMETER of a circle is a line passing through the... | |
| Dana Pond Colburn - Arithmetic - 1856 - 392 pages
...straight line all the way ? 23O. Solids. (a.) A. SPHERE is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every part of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. (6.) A line drawn from the centre to the surface is called a KAWIIJS, and a line drawn from any point... | |
| Sarah S. Cornell - Geography - 1857 - 422 pages
...the magnitude of the radius. Definition of a Sphere. — A Sphere is a body bounded by one continuous surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called its centre. Any line drawn from the centre to the surface is called a radius. A line passing through... | |
| Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1857 - 452 pages
...28 rods 24 yards 6.347 feet. CIRCLES. 627. A circle is a plane figure bounded by a line, every part of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre ; as AEFGBD. The circumference or periphery of a circle is the line bounds it. A radius is a line drawn... | |
| Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1857 - 336 pages
...feet. THE SPHERE. AKT. 362. A SPHERE is a solid, bounded by one continued convex surface, every part of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The axis or diameter of a sphere is a line passing through the centre, and terminated by the surface.... | |
| Charles Davies, William Guy Peck - Mathematics - 1857 - 608 pages
...two straight lines cannot include a space. A circle is a portion of a plane bounded by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centra. The curve is called the circumference, or in common language, the circle. So that in speaking... | |
| William E. Bell - Bridge building - 1857 - 250 pages
...which have like positions in similar polygons. 34. The circumference of a circle is a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. 35. The circle is the surface bounded by the circumference. 36. A radius of a circle is a straight... | |
| Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1858 - 456 pages
...nearly. SPHERES, SPHEROIDS, &c. GttOi A sphere is a solid, bounded by a curved surface, every part of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. A at The axis or diameter of a sphere 5s a lino passing through the centre, and terminated by the surface... | |
| Dana Pond Colburn - 1858 - 288 pages
...the top of the spire ? 143. Solids. (a.) A SPHERE is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every part of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. (Fig. 1, p. 240.) (b.) A line drawn from the centre of a circle to the surface is called a RADIUS,... | |
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