 | Walter Smith - Blackboard drawing - 1879 - 392 pages
...equal to the opening of the compasses with which the circle was struck. Diameter of a Circle — -A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre* and touching the circumference on both sides. (.See p. 107.) Thus the diameter is double the radius.... | |
 | Association for the improvement of geometrical teaching - Geometry, Modern - 1876 - 66 pages
...9. A radius of a circle is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference. DEF. io. h. diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre and terminated both ways by the circumference. [An angle is a simple concept incapable of definition,... | |
 | Education Department,London - 1876 - 1010 pages
...both ways do not meet. Define u right angle, an oblong. Complete the following definitions :— (c) A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre. (b) A square is :i four sided figure whose sides arc all equal. Shew that the following two statements... | |
 | Isaac Todhunter - Philosophy - 1877 - 452 pages
...of the circle. A radius of a circle is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre and terminated both ways by the circumference. An arc of a circle is any part of the circumference.... | |
 | Euclides - 1877 - 58 pages
...the extremity of anything ; and a figure is that which is inclosed by one or more boundaries. 25. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways liy the circumference. 26. A semicircle is a figure contained by a diameter... | |
 | Edward Atkins - 1877 - 72 pages
...straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference is called a radius of the circle]. 1 7. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 18. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter... | |
 | Āryabhaṭa - 1878 - 100 pages
...[•Figure ABCI) : Prop. 1. is a circle.] VII. And this point is called the centre of the circle. VIII. [A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumfer|nce. The straight line AC in figure : Prop. 1. is a diameter.]... | |
 | James Maurice Wilson - 1878 - 450 pages
...Def. 9. A radius of a circle is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference. Def. 10. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre and terminated both ways by the circumference. Def. ir. When two straight lines are drawn from the... | |
 | Euclides - 1879 - 146 pages
...circumference, are equal to one another. 1 6. And this point is called the centre of the circle. 17. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. [A radius is a straight line drawn from the centre to... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1879 - 428 pages
...circumference are equal to one another. 16. And this point is called the centre of the circle. 1 7. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre and terminated both ways by the circumference. 1 8. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter... | |
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A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 
