 | Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Horace Hooker - English language - 1841 - 226 pages
...thrift, n. one who spends money in a wasteful and extravagant manner. Sphere, (sfere), n. a globe — a round body, every part of the surface of which is equally distant from its centre. — the regular circuit through which a body moves. The earth in rpvnlvintr rnnnrl tli*»... | |
 | John Lee COMSTOCK (and HOBLYN (Richard Dennis)), John Lee COMSTOCK - 1846 - 506 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. GNOMON. An apparatus used by the ancients for finding the altitudes and declinations of the celestial... | |
 | James Robinson (of Boston.) - 1847 - 304 pages
...the frustum of a cone. 7. A SPHERE, or GLOBE, is a solid, bounded by a convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be formed by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter. The... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1849 - 336 pages
...inches ? THE SPHERE. ART. 348. A SPHERE is a solid, bounded by one continued convex surface, every part of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The axis or diameter of a sphere is a line passing through the centre, and terminated by the surface.... | |
 | John Weale - 1850 - 590 pages
...bed or canopy Sphere, in geometry, a globe, a solid contained under one uniform surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre of the sphere, and may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter,... | |
 | Charles Guilford Burnham - 1850 - 350 pages
...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 may be conceived to be formed by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter, which... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1850 - 368 pages
...in a point or vertex. 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 may be conceived to be formed by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter, which... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1851 - 332 pages
...Ans. 13.92-f- feet. ART. 284. A SPHERE is a solid bounded by one continued convex surface, every part of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The diameter of a sphere is a straight line passing through the centre, and terminated by the surface... | |
 | Ezra S. Winslow - Business mathematics - 1853 - 264 pages
...or globe, is a perfectly round substance — a solid contained under a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. Its axis, or diameter, is any right line passing from a side through the centre to the opposite side.... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1854 - 342 pages
...Ans. 13.92+ feet. ART. 2841. A SPHERE is a solid bounded by one continued convex surface, every part of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The diameter of a sphere is a straight line passing through the centre, and terminated by the surface... | |
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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. 
