 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1850 - 412 σελίδες
...Planet. Sidereal and Apparent Time. § 1. A sphere is a solid terminated by a curved surface, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. The radius of a sphere is a straight line drawn from the centre to a point in the surface ; the diameter,... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - 1852 - 436 σελίδες
...be circumscribed about the pyramid. 9. The SPHERE is a solid terminated by a curved surface, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The sphere may be generated by the revolution of a semicircle DAE, about its diameter DE : for, the... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1854 - 436 σελίδες
...be circumscribed about the pyramid. 9. The SPHERE is a solid terminated by a curved surface, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The sphere may be generated by the revolution of a semicircle DAE, about its diameter DE : for, the... | |
 | George Roberts Perkins - 1856 - 460 σελίδες
...COMBINATION WITH THE STRAIGHT LINE. DEFINITIONS. I. The circumference of a circle is a curved line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. The circle is the space bounded by the circumference. II. Any straight line drawn from the centre to... | |
 | Sarah S. Cornell - 1857 - 422 σελίδες
...Clrele. — A Circle is a plane figure bounded by one continuous line, called its circumference ; all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre of the circle. Thus, in the adjoining figure, if the points A, D, E, and B are equally distant from... | |
 | James Stewart Eaton - 1857 - 376 σελίδες
...? 38. What is the square root of .376942784 ? 329. APPLICATION OF THE SQUARE ROOT. DEFINITIONS. 1. A CIRCLE is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, all parts of the line being equally distant from a point within, called the centre. 2. The curve which... | |
 | Bourdon (M., Louis Pierre Marie) - 1858 - 262 σελίδες
...divisions of the Circle. — The circumference of a circle is defined in geometry a recutiant line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. In all the scientific works in this country, the circumference is divided into 360 equal parts, called... | |
 | Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox - 1859 - 308 σελίδες
...TUB CIRCLE AND THE MEASURING OF ANGLES. "WK give the name of circumference to a curved line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. ,, The part of the surface contained in the circumference is called the circle. Every right line joining... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - 1860 - 440 σελίδες
...diameter by 3.14159. (Leg. V. 11. Sch.) Note. — The circumference of a circle is a curve line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The diameter of a. circle is a straight line which passes through the centre, and is terminated on... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1860 - 484 σελίδες
...equal ; j _,' H 0 as, IJ KL, Fig. 23. 22. A Sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre ; as, AB CD, Fig. 24. 23. The Axis of a sphere is a straight line passing through its centre and terminating... | |
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PERIPHERY of a circle is its entire bounding line ; or it is a curved line, all points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. 
