 | Hermann Krüsi - Decoration and ornament - 1874 - 92 pages
...THE CIRCLE. A circle, considered mathematically, is a space surrounded by a curved line every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre. In common language, and generally in drawing, the term circle is used to represent the line enclosing... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1874 - 500 pages
...OP ANGLES • DEFINITIONS. ; '1. 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. The bounding line is called the circumference. 2. A RADIUS is a straight line drawn from the centre... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Astronomy - 1874 - 332 pages
...three XTZ. 31. A Circle is a plane figure bounded FIG. 7. Fio. 6. X V —2 by a curve, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the Centre. The Circumference of a circle is the line that bounds it. Any part of the circumference is called an... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - Arithmetic - 1874 - 444 pages
...determining directions. 348. Definitions. — A Circle is a figure bounded by a curve, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the Centre. The bounding curve is also called a circle. The Circumference of a circle is the curve that bounds... | |
 | Stoddard A. Felter, Samuel Ashbel Farrand - Arithmetic - 1875 - 316 pages
...? CIRCULAR OR ANGULAR MEASURE. S^^f*130. A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. (a.) The circumference of a circle is its bounding line. An arc is any part of the circumference. A quadrant... | |
 | Lorenzo Fairbanks - 1875 - 472 pages
...plane of its base ; as, Figure G. 397 A Sphere is a solid bounded by one continued surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre; as, Figure H. The Altitude of a prism, cube, or parallelopipedon, is the perpendicular distance between... | |
 | Milton Browning Goff - Arithmetic - 1876 - 462 pages
...is greater than a right angle. 222. A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, every part of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre. 223. The Circumference of a circle is the line which bounds it. Any part of the circumference is called... | |
 | George Augustus Walton - 1876 - 358 pages
...lines op in the figures.) 448. A Globe or Sphere is a solid bounded by a curved Burface, every part of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre. SOLIDITIES AND CONVEX SURFACES. 449. The Solidity of a Parallelepiped equals the product tf its three... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1876 - 920 pages
...CUNEIFORM INSOKIPTIOX8. SPHERE (Gr. aQaipd), in geometry, a body bounded by a surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre. The figure may bo generated by the. revolution of a semicircle about its diameter as an axis. It is... | |
 | Malcolm MacVicar - Arithmetic - 1876 - 412 pages
...opposite sides. 703. A Circle is a plane bounded by a curved line, called the circumference, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre ; thus : 703. The Diameter of a circle is any straight line, as CD, passing through its centre and... | |
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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. 
