 | Franklin Ibach - Geometry - 1882 - 208 pages
...GEOMETRY. BOOK III. THE CIRCLE. DEFINITIONS. 172. A Circle, is a plane bounded by a curve, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. A( The Circumference, of a circle is the curve which bounds it. An Arc is a part of the circumference... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - Arithmetic - 1882 - 400 pages
...century did 1620 come ? ARC AND ANGLE MEASURES. 177. A Circle is a plane surface bounded by a curve, all points of which are equally distant from a point within called the center. The circumference of a circle is its boundary line. An arc of a circle is any part of the... | |
 | Van Antwerp, Bragg & Company - Geography - 1883 - 132 pages
...What is a compass ? CIRCLES OF THE EARTH. 11. A Circle is a flat surface bounded by a curved line, all points of which are equally distant from a point within called the center. 12. The Circumference of a circle is the curved line that bounds it. 13. A Great Circle... | |
 | National Telephone Exchange Association - Engineering - 1885 - 898 pages
...satisfaction — on you who remind him of Euclid's definition of a circle — "A curved line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre." No longer will some honeyed representative of illustrated journalism beg his photograph in order to... | |
 | James William Nicholson - Arithmetic - 1885 - 348 pages
...which is 6 ft., and the diameter of the base 2 ft. 8 in. 494. A sphere is' a solid bounded by a curved surface all points of which are equally distant from a point within called the center. The diameter of a sphere is a straight line drawn through the center and terminated both... | |
 | Webster Wells - Geometry - 1886 - 392 pages
...see page 217. BOOK II. THE CIRCLE. DEFINITIONS. 150. A circle is a plane figure bounded by a curve, all points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. The curve which bounds the circle is called the circumference, and any portion of it is called an arc.... | |
 | Frank Eugene Kidder - Architecture - 1886 - 640 pages
...upper part of it by a plane parallel to the base. A sphere is a volume bounded by a curved sin-face, all points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. treats of the measurement of lines, surface*. "Fig. 21 .Mensuration find rolumes. RULES. To compute,... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth, George Anthony Hill - Arithmetic - 1887 - 448 pages
...of brick does the chimney contain ? ARITHMETICAL EXERCISES. A Sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface all points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. A straight line drawn from the centre to the surface is called a radius, and a straight line drawn... | |
 | William Chauvenet, William Elwood Byerly - Geometry - 1887 - 331 pages
...the element of contact. THE SPHERE. 19. Definition. A sphere is a solid bounded by a surface all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. A sphere may be generated by the revolution of a semicircle ABC about its diameter AC as an axis; for... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - Geometry - 1888 - 274 pages
...DEFINITIONS. 210. A circle is a portion of a plane bounded by a curved line called a circumference, all points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. 211. A radius is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference ; and a diameter is a straight... | |
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A sphere is a solid bounded by a surface all points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. 
