 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1850 - 412 pages
...the perpendicular distance between them 52 chains ? 332. A circle is a portion of a plane bo'iiuled by a curved line, every part of which is equally distant from a certain point within, called the centre. The curved line AEBD is called the circumference; the point... | |
 | Charles Guilford Burnham - 1850 - 350 pages
...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, which... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1850 - 368 pages
...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, which... | |
 | John Weale - 1850 - 590 pages
...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 its diameter,... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1851 - 332 pages
...the distance from one of the lower corners to an opposite upper corner. Ans. 32.3+ feet. ART. 276. A CIRCLE is a plane figure bounded by a curved line,...every part of which is equally distant from a point called the centre. The circumference or periphery of a circle is the line which bounds it. The diameter... | |
 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1852 - 422 pages
...chains ? QUEST. — 831. How do you find the area of a trapezoid J 332. A circle is a portion of a plane bounded by a curved line, every part of which is equally distant from a certain point within, called the centre. The curved line AEBD is called the circumference; the point... | |
 | Ezra S. Winslow - Business mathematics - 1853 - 264 pages
...or globe, is a perfectly round substance — a solid contained under a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. Its axis, or diameter, is any right line passing from a side through the centre to the opposite side.... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1854 - 342 pages
...aro each 20 feet, and the perpendicular 17.32 feet ? Ans. 1039.20 square feet. THE CIRCLE. ART. 329. A CIRCLE is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, every part of which is JH equally distant from a point, called its centre. The circumference or periphery of a circle is the... | |
 | Henry Kiddle - 1854 - 154 pages
...and BG the minor axis of the ellipse. A sphere or globe is a round body, every part of the surface of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre. A hemisphere is a half of a globe. The diameter of a sphere is a straight line drawn through the centre,... | |
 | Calvin Kingsley - Resurrection - 1855 - 162 pages
...that a square has not all its sides equal, and all its angles rightangles? or that a circle is not bounded by a curved line, every part of which is equally distant from a common point? And when it is fairly demonstrated that the square upon the hypothenuse of a right-angled... | |
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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. 
