 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - 1876 - 230 σελίδες
...circle is any straight line drawn through the center, and terminated by the circumference, as AE. 173. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called Degrees. 370* What is a Circle ? The Circumference of a circle ? What is an Arc of a circle ? A Diameter? How... | |
 | James Martin (of the Wedgwood inst, Burslem.) - 1876 - 334 σελίδες
...it. Ex. AB. The point where it touches the circle is called the point of contact. Ex. B. NOTE 1. — The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, marked °. Hence, a semicircle will contain 180°; a quarter of a circle, or a quadrant, 80° ; the... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1876 - 818 σελίδες
...equator or the meridians. Small circles, such as the tropics, divide the globe into two unequal parts. Every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; every degree into sixty equal parts, called minutes ; and every minute into sixty equal parts, called... | |
 | George Augustus Walton - 1876 - 358 σελίδες
...circumference, through the centre, to an opposite joint, is called a Diameter. 188. The circumference of any circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called Degrees, each degree into (J0 Minutes, and each minute into 60 Seconds. TABLE, 60 seconds (") = 1 minute, marked... | |
 | David Murray - 1878 - 284 σελίδες
...angle A. For the purpose of expressing this measurement, we conceive the circumference of a circle to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, and each degree _ into 60 equal parts, called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. They are... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1879 - 238 σελίδες
...circle is any straight line drawn through the center, and terminated by the circumference, as AE. 173. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called Degrees. B180" 270" What is a Circle ? The Circumference of a circle ? What is an Arc of a circle ? A Diameter?... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1879 - 530 σελίδες
...pole. The brazen meridian is the circle in which the artificial globe turns, divided into 360 degrees. Every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called dfgrees; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes; each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds,... | |
 | New Sydenham Society, Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick - 1882 - 872 σελίδες
...all the right lines that can be drawn from its central point to any part of it equal The periphery of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees. C., •'«« of. The area of a circle is found by multiplying die square of the diameter by C., cll'lary.... | |
 | Mathew Wilson - 1884 - 294 σελίδες
...adjectives one, each, either, neither, every, are in the third person singular; as, " Every circle is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, and each degree into 60 minutes." f- Adjectives should be employed to modify nouns; adverbs to modify verbs and adjectives; as, " Lakes... | |
 | M. P. Caldwell - 1883 - 198 σελίδες
...is used in estimating latitude and longimde, and also in measuring the motions of heavenly bodies. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 degrees. TIME. 60 Seconds (sec.) make 1 Minute, marked m. 60 Minutes " 1 Hour, " hr. 24 Hours " 1 Day,... | |
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The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; and each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds ; and these into thirds, &c. 
