| George Albert Wentworth - Geometry - 1877 - 426 pages
...point. BOOK II. CIRCLES. DEFINITIONS. 160. DEF. A Сircle is a plane figuro bounded by a curved line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the Сentre. 161. DEF. The Сircumference of a circle is the line which bounds the circle. 162. DEF.... | |
| Elias Loomis - Conic sections - 1877 - 458 pages
...IX. SPHERICAL GEOMETRY. Definitions. \. A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, all the A. points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. A sphere may be conceived to be described by the revolution of a semicircle ADB about its diameter... | |
| George Albert Wentworth - Geometry - 1877 - 416 pages
...vRr. BOOK VIII. THE SPHERE. ON SECTIONS AND 669. DEF. A Sphere is a solid bounded by a surface all points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. A sphere may be generated by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter as an axis. 670. DEF.... | |
| Samuel Mecutchen, George Mornton Sayre - Arithmetic - 1877 - 200 pages
...divided being 12 and 16 feet respectively? CIRCLES. A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curve, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within it, called the centre. The Circumference is the curve which bounds the circle. The Radius is any straight... | |
| Frederic William Bardwell - Arithmetic - 1878 - 416 pages
...distance from the vertex to any point of the circumference of its base. A sphere is a body bounded by a curved surface, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, .called a center. The diameter of a sphere is a straight Hue passing through the center of a sphere, each end... | |
| Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1879 - 238 pages
...hours ? years in 365 days? CIRCULAR MEASURE. 169. A Circle is a plane figure, bounded by a curved line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the cen- aso° A ter. 170. The Circumference of a circle is its entire bounding line. 171. An Arc of... | |
| Horatio Nelson Robinson - 1875 - 472 pages
...the top by a plane parallel to the base. THE SPHERE. 772. A Sphere is a body bounded by a uniformly curved surface, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the center. 773. The Diameter of a sphere is a straight line passing through the center of the sphere,... | |
| Joseph Ray - Arithmetic - 1880 - 420 pages
...latitude, and longitude, in navigation, astronomy, etc. A circle is a plane surface bounded by a line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within. ARTICLES. LB. EXCEPTIONS. Beans. 60 Me., 64; NY, 62. Coal. 80 f Ohio, 70 of cannel ; Ind., 70 mined... | |
| Charles Scott Venable - 1881 - 380 pages
...faces of a regular hexaedron whose edge is given. * 3 * \ s 6 BOOK VII. THE SPHERE. DEFINITIONS. 1. The sphere is a solid terminated by a curved surface,...distant from a point within called the centre. The sphere may be conceived as generated by the revolution of a Semicircle, DAE, about its diameter, DE... | |
| H. Bryant - 1881 - 574 pages
...25 ft. and each side of whose base is 10 ft. ? 76.5. Sj)licret>. — 1. A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the center. 2. The diameter or axis of a sphere is a line passing through the center, and terminated... | |
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