 | James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1809 - 574 pages
...epochs, divisions, subdivisions, and measures. Circle, is a plane figure bounded by a uniformly-curved line called the circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a certain point within the same, called the centre. Diameter is a right line passing through the centre,... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1811 - 516 pages
...a plain figure, bounded by three lines or sides." " A circle is a plane figure, bounded by a curve line called the circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre." An axiom is a manifest truth not requiring a demonstration : The... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811 - 458 pages
...plain figure, bounded by thrrc lines or «ides." " A circle is a plane figure, bounded liy a curre line called the circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre." AD axiom is a manifest truth not requiring a detnonstratipn : The... | |
 | Anthony Nesbit, W. Little - Measurement - 1822 - 916 pages
...48. The arc of a quadrant contains 90 degrees, which is the measure of a right angle. 49. An ellipse is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, called the circumference; but as the figure is not a circle, it is described from two points in the loneest diameter, called... | |
 | Anthony Nesbit - Surveying - 1824 - 476 pages
...regular polygon has all its sides and angles equal ; when they are unequal, the polygon is irregular. 38. A circle is a plane figure, bounded by a curved line, called the circumference, which is every where equi-distant from a certain po.int within it, called the centre. H 39. The diameter... | |
 | Catharine Esther Beecher - Arithmetic - 1833 - 296 pages
...Note. This answer is obtained by finding the cube root of 614125. A circle is a figure contained by one line called the circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre. The diameter of a circle, is a line drawn through the centre, dividing... | |
 | Frederick Emerson - Arithmetic - 1834 - 300 pages
...is the distance of the centre from either corner ? A CIRCLE is a plane .surface bounded by one curve line, called the circumference, every part of which is equally distant from the centre. A straight line through the I centre of a circle is called a diameter, and a straight line from the... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - Astronomy - 1838 - 160 pages
...point of the heavens. | •See Fig. 5, Plate VI. 1 See Fig. 7, Plate VI. I 6 FIRST BOOK IN ASTRONOMY. A circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, called the cir cumference, every part of which is equally distant from the centre. The diameter of a circle is... | |
 | Frederick Emerson - Arithmetic - 1839 - 300 pages
...is the distance of the centre from either corner ? A CIRCLE is a plane surface bounded by one curve line, called the circumference, every part of which is equally distant from the centre. A straight line through the ff centre of a circle is called a P diameter, and a straight line \ from... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - Arithmetic - 1842 - 320 pages
...entire distance round it; and is found by adding together all the sides that bound it. Fig. 14. 34. A CIRCLE is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, called the Circumference or Periphery ; which is every where equally distant from a certain point within it. called the CENTRE.... | |
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A circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line called the circumference, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center, Fig. 
