 | William Hughes - 1908 - 942 pages
...anything, and a Figure is that which is enclosed by one or more boundaries. Hence A Circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such thai all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal... | |
 | William Hughes - 1910 - 934 pages
...anything, and a Figure is that which is enclosed by one or more boundaries. Hence A Circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the...figure to the circumference are equal to one another. This point is the centre of the circle. A Diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the... | |
 | Alexander H. McDougall - Geometry - 1910 - 316 pages
...equal to each other is called a rhombus. A circle is a figure consisting of one closed curved line, called the circumference, and is such that all straight...lines drawn from a certain point within the figure, called the centre, to the circumference are equal to each other. In a circle a st. line drawn from... | |
 | David Allan Low - Geometrical drawing - 1912 - 468 pages
...used it generally stands for " straight line." 2. The Circle — Definitions. — A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the...figure to the circumference are equal to one another : and this point is called the centre of the circle. . The meanings of the terms radius, diameter,... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1912 - 916 pages
...Apus, Musca, Centaurus , Lupus, Norma, and Triangulum Australe. Circle, in geometry, a plane ligure contained by one line, which is called the "circumference"...that all straight lines drawn from a certain point (the "centre") within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another. According to this definition... | |
 | Charles Leonard-Stuart, George Jotham Hagar - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1912 - 666 pages
...year, he forgot his glory in his devotion to pleasure. Circle, a plane figure contained by one Hue, which is called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point (the center) within the figure to the circumference are equal lo one another. Circle, Magic, u space... | |
 | Charles Morris - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1923 - 496 pages
...that are rolled up like a watchspring before expanding. Circle ts'.r'kl)> * plane figure con"" tained by one line, which is called the circumference, and...that all straight lines drawn from a certain point (the center) within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another. The properties of the... | |
 | D. Ponton - Mathematics - 1927 - 168 pages
...A Plane Figure is any portion of a plane surface bounded by one or more lines. A Circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the...figure to the circumference are equal to one another. This point is called the Centre of the Circle, and the straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference... | |
 | Carl Sandburg - 1926 - 528 pages
...no parts and which has no magnitude; (2) a line is length without breadth; (15) a circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the...figure to the circumference are equal to one another; (16) and this point is called the centre of the circle. Also it began with Axioms or Common Notions:... | |
 | English literature - 1838 - 596 pages
...an axiom ? Will Mr Whewell reason as follows? — ' A circle ' is defined by Euclid to be " a plane figure contained by one ' line, which is called the...drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumfe' rence, are equal to one another." How does it appear that ' any line can have such a character... | |
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A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference, are equal to one another : XVI. 
