 | John Playfair - 1806 - 320 pages
...to one another. XII. And this point is called the centre of the circle. XHL A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. XIV. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter and the part of the circumference... | |
 | Robert Simson - 1806 - 546 pages
...one another:. XVI. And this point is called the centre of the circle. XVH. A diameter of • circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. , XVIII. A semicircle is the, figure contained by a .diameter and the part of the circumference... | |
 | John Aikin - 1807 - 442 pages
...every where equally distant from a point within the figure called the centre. 2. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre and terminated both ways by the circumference. 3. An arc of a circle is any part of the circumference. 4. The circumference of every... | |
 | Sir John Leslie - 1809 - 542 pages
...the boundary traced by the remote end of that line its circumference. 3$. The diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. It is obvious that all radii of the same circle are equal to each other and to a semidiameter.... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - 1815 - 388 pages
...is half, and a quadrant one fourth, of a circle. ,*., , • •('•• II. 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 extending from the centre to the circumference. A Chord... | |
 | Daniel Cresswell - 1816 - 352 pages
...the surface, are equal to one another : (2.) And this point is called the Center of the Sphere. (3.) A Diameter of a Sphere is a straight line, drawn through the center, and terminated, both ways, by the surface of the sphere. (4.) COR. The center of a sphere bisects... | |
 | Sir John Leslie - 1817 - 456 pages
...the boundary traced by the remote end of that line its circumference. 35. The diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. It is obvious that all radii of the same circle are equal to each other and to a semidiameter.... | |
 | John Gummere - 1817 - 384 pages
...átraight line drawn from the centre to the circumference, as С В, Fig. 17. 35. The diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference, as AE, Fig. 17. It divides the circle into two equal parts, called semicircles. 36.... | |
 | John Playfair - 1819 - 350 pages
...to one another. XII. And this point is called the centre of the circle. XIII. A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. « XIV. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter and the part of the circumference... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - 1819 - 574 pages
...thus described by the curve DAE will have all its points equally distant from the centre C. 438. The radius of a sphere is a straight line drawn from the centre to a point in the surface ; the diameter or axis is a line passing through the centre and terminated each... | |
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A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 
