 | Thomas Baker (C.E.) - 1865 - 174 pages
...is a round pyramid, 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 maybe conceived to be formed by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter, which remains... | |
 | Henry Pallett - Flour mills - 1866 - 354 pages
...fly-v,hetli, etc., etc. A circle is a figure bounded by a curved line, called the circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre. The diameter is a straight line passing through the centre, and terminated both ways 'by the circumference.... | |
 | C. Davies - 1867 - 342 pages
...inscribed in a cone; and a frustum of a pyramid may be inscribed in the frustum of a cone7 A SPHERE is a volume bounded by a curved surface, every point of...which is equally distant from a point within, called the centreThe distance from the centre to the circumference is called the radius- The diameter is a... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1867 - 1204 pages
...perimeter of the polygon.'* But, on the contrary, 'A circle is a plane figure, bounded by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre.'^ Now, here, as in all other works on Geometry, the polygon and the circle are defined as separate and... | |
 | Rolla Rouse - 1867 - 228 pages
...height or altitude. (235.) SPHERE OR GLOBE. Is a figure terminated at all parts by a surface, every part of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. (236.) SEGMENT of a pyramid, sphere, or other solid, is a part cut off the top by a plane parallel... | |
 | Stoddard A. Felter - Arithmetic - 1868 - 360 pages
...perpendicular to AB at its centre is called the minor diameter. 313. A Sphere is a solid, bounded by a convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre; as Fig. 22. 3 14. A Spheroid is a solid, generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of its... | |
 | Charles William Morey - 1911 - 154 pages
...to hr. 19. 81 gal. to qt. 20. 15| bu. to qt. CIRCLES A circle is a surface bounded by a curved line every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center. The boundary line is the circumference. A diameter of a circle is a straight line running... | |
 | Bruce Mervellon Watson, Charles Edward White - Arithmetic - 1911 - 424 pages
...passes through how many degrees in 12 hours ? In 1 hour ? 189. A plane figure bounded by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the center, is a circle. The boundary line of a circle is its circumference. Any part of a circumference... | |
 | Seymour Eaton - Business - 1912 - 454 pages
...angular surfaces. The volume of a rectangular solid is the portion of space which 1 occupies. A solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the center, is called a globe, or sphere. A cylinder is a solid figure described by the revolution... | |
 | Jennings Cropper Wise - Artillery, Field and mountain - 1912 - 352 pages
...bases, as triangular, quadrangular, hexangular, octangular, conical. SPHERES—A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center, A diameter of a sphere is a straight line SPHERE passing through the center and ending... | |
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A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center. 
