 | Charles Haynes Haswell - Measurement - 1858 - 350 pages
...line drawn from the centre of it to its circumference. The Circumference of a Circle is assumed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees; each degree is divided into 60 parts, called minutes ; each minute into 60 parts, called seconds ; and each second into 60 parts,... | |
 | Dana Pond Colburn - Arithmetic - 1860 - 388 pages
...of a circle, whether the circle be l.irge or small, is supposed to be divided into 3t10 equal p:\rts called degrees. Each degree is divided into 60 equal parts, called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts, called ccconds. (g.) A degree is to be regarded simply as the S60th part of the... | |
 | Henry S. Merrett - 1863 - 428 pages
...plane figure bound by a curve line, called the circumference (it is often called the periphery), and is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees; each...degree is divided into 60 equal parts, called minutes, each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds, the next thirds, and so on. Degrees are expressed... | |
 | Henry S. Merrett - 1863 - 476 pages
...plane figure bound by a curve line, called the circumference (it is often called the periphery), and is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ;...degree is divided into 60 equal parts, called minutes, each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds, the next thirds, and so on. Degrees are expressed... | |
 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1863 - 346 pages
...in measuring the motions of the heavenly bodies. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees. Each degree is divided into 60 minutes, and each minute into 60 seconds. Table 60 Seconds ( " ) . . make 1 Minute, . . . marked '.... | |
 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1867 - 486 pages
...heavenly bodies, and also in measuring angles. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divide> into 360 equal parts, called degrees. Each degree is divided into 60 minutes, and each minute into 60 seconds. Table. 60 seconds ("). . . . mate 1 minute, marked ' 60 minutes... | |
 | William Mitchell Gillespie - Surveying - 1868 - 530 pages
...circumference, described with the same radius. Every circumference is regarded as being divided into 860 equal parts, called degrees. Each degree is divided...into 60 equal parts, called minutes, and each minute into 60 seconds. These divisions are indicated by the marks ° ' ". Thus 28 degrees, 17 minutes, and... | |
 | William Mitchell Gillespie - Surveying - 1869 - 550 pages
...with an entire circumference, described with the same radius. Every circumference is regarded as being divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees. Each...into 60 equal parts, called minutes, and each minute into 60 seconds. These divisions are indicated by the marks ° ' ". Thus 28 degrees, 17 minutes, and... | |
 | Dana Pond Colburn - 1869 - 286 pages
...called an ARC. (e.) Every circumference of a circle, whether large or small, is supposed to contain 360 equal parts, called DEGREES ; each degree is divided...into 60 equal parts, called MINUTES ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called SECONDS. NOTE. — Tho length of a degree, as well as that of its subdivisions,... | |
 | John Reynell Morell - Geometry - 1871 - 156 pages
...(a). Fig- 9 (b). 90 16. To estimate the value of any arc of the circumference, it is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees; each...degree is divided into 60 equal parts called minutes, each minute is divided into 60 seconds, &c. Degrees, minutes, and seconds are expressed : — 45°... | |
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Each degree is divided into 60 equal parts called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds. 
