INDEX TO DEFINITIONS Acute angle, 11. polygons, 194. The numbers refer to pages Altitude, 197, 198, 311, 329. Angle, 6. acute, 11. cosine of, 416. in an arc, 111. obtuse, 11. reflex, 12. sine of, 416. tangent of, 416. complementary, 67. Arc of a circle, 100. Axis, of a circle, 372. Axis, radical, 170. Centroid of a triangle, 80. Chord, of a circle, 100. of contact, 119. tangent of, 116. Circles, coaxial system of, 170. in contact, 130. Circumference of a circle, 244. Circumscribed figure, 119. Closed surface, 310. Coaxial circles, 170. Commensurable magnitudes, 141. verse, 133. Concentric, circles, 18. spheres, 370. Decagon, 233. Diagonals, principal, 252. Dihedral angle, 284. plane angle of, 285. Figures, identically equal, 9. isoperimetric, 228. symmetrical, 88. Frustum, of a cone, 365. of a pyramid, 328. Great circle, 371. Harmonic division, 186. Hexagon, 233. principal diagonals of, 252. Hexahedron, 311. Homologous sides, 30. Hypotenuse, 44. Icosahedron, 311. Incommensurable magnitudes, 141. Indirect proof, 47. Inscribed figure, 111. Isoperimetric figures, 228. trihedral angle, 302. Length of an arc, 245. Distance from a point, to a straight Limit, 147. line, 53. to a plane, 275. Dodecagon, 233. Dodecahedron, 311. Equilateral triangles, 22. Extreme and mean ratio, 177. Line, oblique to a plane, 266. parallel to a plane, 266. Line-segments, 3. Lines, concurrent, 79. parallel, 61. perpendicular, 9. skew or gauche, 271. Mean proportional, 152. Measure, 140. Median of a triangle, 79. Minimum value, 111, 226. Multiple, 140. Octagon, 233. Octahedron, 311. Orthocentre of a triangle, 83. Parallel, lines, 61. Parallelogram, 74. altitude of, 197. Pentagon, 233. Pentahedron, 311. Perimeter, 79. Perpendicular, to a line, 9. Plane surface, 4. Polar spherical triangles, 387. Polygon, 71, 73. convex, 71, 73. opposite sides of, 72. perimeter of, 79. regular, 233. spherical, 382. Polygons, adjacent, 194. mutually equiangular, 161. similar, 161. Polyhedral angle, 296. Polyhedral angles, symmetrical, 297. circumscribed, 378. Polyhedrons, similar, 339. Postulate, 15. Principle of continuity, 125. Prism, 311. truncated, 315. Problem, 17. Projection, 212, 292. Proportion, 149. Pyramid, 328. Quadrant, 372. Radical axis, 170. Ratio, 142, 144, 148. extreme and mean, 177. Regular polygon, 233. apothem of, 239. centre of, 239. radius of, 239. Regular pyramid, 328. slant height of, 328. Right angle, 9. Right triangle, 44. Right circular, cone, 362. prism 311. Scalene triangles, 22. of a sphere, 406. of a sphere, 401. Semicircle, 101. Similar, arcs, 249. polygons, 161. Sine of an angle, 416. excess, 391. polygon, 382. pyramid, 406. sector, 406. segment, 401. triangle, 382. unit of surface, 397. Square, 74. Surface, closed, 310. conical, 361. cylindrical, 353. plane, 4. Symmetrical, figures, 88. Tangent, of an angle, 416. to a circle, 116. Tangent, to a cylinder, 355. to a sphere, 375. Tangents, common, direct and in- Tetrahedron, 311. Theorem, 17. Third proportional, 152. Transversal, 62. Trapezium, 74. Trapezoid, 74. isoceles, 77. altitude of, 198. centroid of, 80. equilateral, 22. spherical, 382. Trihedral angle, 296. isosceles, 302. Truncated, prism, 315. Vertex, 5, 71, 310. Volume of a polyhedron, 315, 324. Zone, 401. |