 | Edwin Pliny Seaver, George Augustus Walton - Arithmetic - 1895 - 412 pages
...circle, is its diameter. 271. The circumference of a circle is divided into 360 equal arcs, called degrees (°), each degree into 60 minutes ('), and each minute into 60 seconds ("). A Circle. 272. When two lines, as ab and be, ' An Angle. meet each other, they form an angle. The lines... | |
 | William Jay Youmans - Science - 1896 - 910 pages
...of his questions might run thus : — What do you propose to do with the circle ? At present it is divided into 360 degrees, each degree into 60 minutes, and each minute into 60 seconds. I suppose you -would divide it into 100 degrees, each degree into 100 minutes, and each of these into... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Sociology - 1914 - 286 pages
...Some of his questions might run thus: — What do you propose to do with the circle? At present it is divided into 360 degrees, each degree into 60 minutes, and each minute into 60 seconds. I suppose you would divide it into 100 degrees, each degree into 100 minutes, and each of these into... | |
 | Nehemiah Hawkins - Steam engineering - 1901 - 354 pages
...same number of degrees in each and every circumference is the measure of precisely the same angle. The circumference of a circle is supposed to be divided into 360 degrees or divisions, and as the total angularity about the center is equal to four right angles, each right... | |
 | Nehemiah Hawkins - Mechanical drawing - 1902 - 328 pages
...same number of degrees in each and every circumference is the measure of precisely the same angle. The circumference of a circle is supposed to be divided into 360 degrees or divisions, and as the total angularity about the center is equal to four right angles, each right... | |
 | John S. Rooke - Mechanical drawing - 1902 - 96 pages
...is a right line that touches a circle without cutting it. COTANGENT is tangent of complement of arc. THE CIRCUMFERENCE OF A CIRCLE is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, termed degrees ; each degree into 60 minutes and each minute into 60 seconds. COMPLEMEMT... | |
 | American School (Chicago, Ill.) - Engineering - 1903 - 390 pages
...latitude, CD departure, and DOC the course. Nautical Miles, or Knots. A great circle of the earth is divided into 360 degrees, each degree into 60 minutes, and each minute into 60 seconds. Each minute is 6,080 feet (nearly) in length, or one nautical mile, the statute mile being only 5,280... | |
 | Charles Augustus Young - Astronomy - 1903 - 456 pages
...those of angle, viz.: degrees (°), minutes ('), and seconds ("); the circumference of a circle being divided into 360 degrees, each degree into 60 minutes, and each minute into 60 seconds. Thus, the Great Bear's tail, or " Dipper-handle," is about 16° long, and the long side of the " Dipper-bowl"... | |
 | Nehemiah Hawkins - Mechanical drawing - 1903 - 328 pages
...same number of degrees in each and every circumference is the measure of precisely the same angle. The circumference of a circle is supposed to be divided into 360 degrees or divisions, and as the total angularity about the center is equal to four right angles, each right... | |
 | Paul Nooncree Hasluck - Photography - 1905 - 890 pages
...and A at the other end of it, the angle between the directions of A and в would be 23*. (A circle is divided into 360 degrees, each degree into 60 minutes, and each minute into 60 seconds.) The A rays will come to a focus at a in the upper part of the tube, the в rays at Ь in the lower... | |
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The circumference of a circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees; each degree into 60 minutes, and each minute into 60 seconds. Degrees, minutes, and seconds are designated by the characters °, ', ". Thus 23° 14' 35" is read... 
