 | Robert Potts - Geometry - 1876 - 446 pages
...Boundary is the extremity ot any tM%. XIV. A figure is that which is enclosed TiV one or more boundaries. XV. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference, are... | |
 | George Elliot Voyle, G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson - English language - 1876 - 676 pages
...where leather work is made up. Chuttack — An Indian weight, the sixteenth part of a seer. Circle — A plane figure, contained by one line which is called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are... | |
 | Edward Atkins - 1877 - 72 pages
...is the extremity of anything. 14. A figure is that which is enclosed by one or more boundaries. 15. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such, that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are... | |
 | James Maurice Wilson - 1878 - 450 pages
...three given points is constant is a circle. BOOK III, THE CIRCLE. SECTION I. ELEMENTARY PROPERTIES. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such that all the lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1879 - 428 pages
...is the extremity of anything. 14. A figure is that which is enclosed by one or more boundaries. 15. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are... | |
 | Euclides - 1879 - 146 pages
...is the extremity of anything. 14. A figure is that which is enclosed by one or more boundaries. 15. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such that ? straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference, are equal... | |
 | Isaac Todhunter - Euclid's Elements - 1880 - 426 pages
...is the extremity of any thing. 14. A figure is that which is enclosed by one or more boundaries. 15. A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such, that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are... | |
 | T S. Taylor - 1880 - 152 pages
...as above, and using the letters affixed to these lines instead of A, J3, C, D. ff Definitions. — A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are... | |
 | Thomas Liddell Ainsley - 1880 - 866 pages
...those which are called curvilinear, being bounded not by straight lines but by curved lines. Def.—A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such that all strait lines drawn from its centre to the circumference are equal to one another. The... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1880 - 668 pages
...VII. — A plane figure is a portion of a plane surface inclosed by a line or lines. "Def. VIII. — \circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, &c. "Def. XXII. — A plane rectilineal figure is a portion of a plane surface inclosed by straight... | |
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A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference, are equal to one another. 
