 | Leonard Dunnell Gale - Physics - 1838 - 280 pages
...b it will appear retrograde, and from 6 to c it will again appear stationary. Fig. 3. XV. A circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, called the circumference, every part of which is equally distant from the centre. XVI. The diameter of a circle is a line drawn through... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1839 - 356 pages
...round pyramid, baring 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,... | |
 | Richard Abbatt - Spherical astronomy - 1841 - 234 pages
...SECTION V. SPHERICAL GEOMETRY. (68.) Def. A sphere is a solid bounded on all sides by a curve surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. A sphere may be conceived to be generated by a semicircle's revolving about its diameter,... | |
 | Charles Guilford Burnham - Arithmetic - 1841 - 324 pages
...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 may be conceived to be formed by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter,... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1841 - 334 pages
...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 may be conceived to be formed by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter,... | |
 | Arithmetic - 1841 - 200 pages
...solidity of a globe, or sphere. DEFINITION. — A globe or sphere is (J) a round body bounded by a surface every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre; a line passing from one side to the other through the centre is called the diameter, or... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - Arithmetic - 1842 - 320 pages
...distance round it; and is found by adding together all the sides that bound it. Fig. 14. 34. A CIRCLE is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, called the Circumference or Periphery ; which is every where equally distant from a certain point within it. called the CENTRE.... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - Arithmetic - 1843 - 320 pages
...entire distance round it; and is found by adding together all the sides that bound it. 34. A CIRCLE is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, called the Circumference or Periphery ; which is every where equally distant from a certain point within it, called the CENTRE.... | |
 | John Thomas Crossley - 1845 - 336 pages
...equiangular when all its angles are equal. When both these are equal, it is a regular figure. A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, called the Circumference, which is every where equidistant from a point within, called its Centre. The circumference is sometimes... | |
 | John Lee COMSTOCK (and HOBLYN (Richard Dennis)), John Lee COMSTOCK - 1846 - 506 pages
...GLOBE. A round 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... | |
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A circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, called the circumference, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center. 
