| John Fair Stoddard - 1852 - 320 páginas
...NONAGOJ* ; that of t«i, a DECAGON ; that of twelve, a DODECAGON, &-i•.. A CIRCLE is a plane, terminated by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, culled the center. The curved line is called the circumference The DIAMETER of a circle... | |
| Charles Davies, William Guy Peck - 1855 - 592 páginas
...the additional fact, that two straight lines cannot include a space. A circle is a portion of a plane bounded by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. 1 The curve is called the circumference, or in common language,... | |
| Charles Davies - 1856 - 450 páginas
...chains, and the perpendicular distance between them 52 chains ? 337. A circle is a portion of a plane bounded by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a certain point within, called the centre. The curved line AEBD is called the circumference ; the point... | |
| John Fair Stoddard - 1856 - 312 páginas
...NONAOON ; that of ten, a DECAGON ; that of twelve, a DODECAGON, &c. A CIRCLE is a plane, terminated by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The curved line is called the circumference. The DIAMETER of a circle... | |
| Charles Davies - 1861 - 496 páginas
...and the perpendicular distance between them 52 chains ? Circle. 411. A CIRCLE is a portion of a plane bounded by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a certain point within, called the center The curved line AEBD is called the circumference; the point... | |
| John Ogilvie - 1865 - 846 páginas
...circle.] That wWc* goes round about or encompojMt*; a line: an orb or globe; a plane figure contained by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a poiut within the figure, called the centre; the line that bounds a circle, or the circumference ;... | |
| Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1867 - 1204 páginas
...of the polygon, is called the perimeter of the polygon.'* But, on the contrary, 'A circle is a plane figure, bounded by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre.'^ Now, here, as in all other works on Geometry, the polygon and... | |
| Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1869 - 530 páginas
...on. It must be borne in mind that the next definition is made by a physical geographer. ' A circle is a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from the centre.' From the centre of the line ? or is the circle a figure ? Overlooking the fact that a circle... | |
| Charles Davies - 1872 - 464 páginas
...proportionals. BOOK III. .. FHK (J1KCJJE AND TIIK MEASUREMENT OF ANGLES DEFINITIONS. 1. A CIRCLE is a plane figure, bounded by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The bounding line is called the circumference. 2. A RADIUS is a... | |
| Daniel W. Fish - 1874 - 526 páginas
...The Unit is the Degree, which is ^ part of the circumference of any circle. 374. A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the Center. 375. The CircumferB ence of a circle is the line that bounds it.... | |
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