 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - Education - 1828 - 426 pages
...diameter or divide the circumference by 3.14159. NOTE 1. A globe is a rouml, solid body, bounded by a surface, every part of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre. OBs. 1. The surface of a globe may be found by the following The largest ball near the top of the spire... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Astronomy - 1829 - 312 pages
...or spherical body, more usually called a sphere, bounded by one uniform convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre. GRAVITY, a term used by physical HARMONY, in musick, the agreeable result, or union, of several musical... | |
 | Timothy Claxton - Decimal system - 1830 - 34 pages
...round and of equal size throughout, is a cylinder. GLOBE, a sphere, or ball ; a solid with a curved surface every part of which is equally distant from a point within, called its centre. CONE, is a solid having a circle for its base, its sides are convex and terminate in a... | |
 | Mary W. Howland - Teaching - 1831 - 302 pages
...round pyramid, its base a circle, its top a point. What is a sphere? A solid enclosed in one curved surface, every part of which is equally distant from a point within, which is called the centre. Regular Solids. What is a regular solid? A solid having its sides all of... | |
 | Catharine Esther Beecher - Arithmetic - 1833 - 296 pages
...finding the cube root of 614125. A circle is a figure contained by one line called the circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre. The diameter of a circle, is a line drawn through the centre, dividing it into two equal parts. It is found by calculation,... | |
 | Tobias Ostrander - Measurement - 1833 - 172 pages
...those lines being parallel to the base 7 SECTION II. OF CIRCLES. A CIRCLE is a plane, bounded by a line which is equally distant from a point within called the centre. The bounding line is called the circumference or periphery. An arc is any portion of that circumference.... | |
 | Tobias Ostrander - Measurement - 1834 - 182 pages
...2,321, and 3,025, the distances required. SECTION II. OP CIRCLES. A CIRCLE is a plane, bounded by a line which is equally distant from a point within called the centre. The bounding line. | is called the circumference or periphery. An arc is any portion of that circumference.... | |
 | Mary W. Howland - Education - 1834 - 288 pages
...round pyramid, its base a circle, its top a point. What is a sphere? A solid enclosed in one curved surface, every part of which is equally distant from a point within, which is called the centre. Regular Solids. What is a regular solid? A solid having its sides all of... | |
 | Mrs. L. H. Tyler - Astronomy - 1837 - 302 pages
...DBF. 2. A circle is a plane figure, comprehended by a single curve line, called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within, called its centre. The enclosed surface in fig. 3, represents a circle, the curve line its circumference and... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Physics - 1838 - 266 pages
...CD, CO, CR, and CA, are radii. 2. A circle ia a perfectly round figure, every part of the outer edge of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. [See Fig. 6.] 4. The lines drawn through the centre, and terminating in both ends at the circumference,... | |
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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. 
