 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1850 - 412 páginas
...of a 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... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1850 - 402 páginas
...sides, viz. Pentagons, Hexagons, Heptagons, &c. § 244. A portion of a plane bounded by a cirek»: curved line, all the points of which are equally distant from a certain point within called the centre, is called a circle, and the bounding line is called the circumference.... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - 1852 - 436 páginas
...THE CIRCLE, AND THE MEASUREMENT OF ANGLES. DEFINITIONS. 1. 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 circle is the portion of the plane terminated by the circumference. 2. Every straight... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1854 - 436 páginas
...THE CIRCLE, AND THE MEASUREMENT OF ANGLES. DEFINITIONS. 1. 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 circle is the portion of the plane terminated by the circumference. 2. Every straight... | |
 | George Roberts Perkins - 1856 - 460 páginas
...CIRCLE, AND ITS 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... | |
 | Sarah S. Cornell - 1857 - 422 páginas
...a 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... | |
 | James Stewart Eaton - 1857 - 376 páginas
...? 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 páginas
...the two 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... | |
 | Elias Loomis - 1858 - 256 páginas
...BOOK IX. SPHERICAL GEOMETRY Definitions. 1. A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, all th« points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the center. The sphere may be conceived to be described by the revolution of a semicircle ADB, about its diameter... | |
 | Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox - 1859 - 308 páginas
...supposition. CHAPTER IV. 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... | |
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A CIRCLE is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the center; as the figure ADB E. 
