Mensuration for elementary and middle class schools1875 - 85 pages |
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16 Maps acres ATLAS base breadth calculating called centre chains circle circular circumference cloth lettered consisting of 32 contains exactly convex surface cube cubic foot cubic ft diagonal diameter dimensions divided ellipse Euclid EXERCISES Fcap feet field find its area find its solidity find its volume find the area find the cost find the length Find the solid find the volume frustrum GEOGRAPHY Glasgow Gunter's chain heptagon Herriot Hill hypothenuse inscribed LESSON LL.D miles multiply half number of sides ordinates parallel parallelopiped pentagonal perpendicular distance perpendicular height Physical Map pickets poles radius rectangular regular polygon rhomboid rhombus right angle right-angled triangle rule sector segment side measures slant height small faces solid content solid figure sphere is equal square and rectangle square foot square pyramid square yard straight line surveyor trapezium trapezoid triangular prism vertex wedge World-shewing
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Page 10 - When a straight line standing on another straight line makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of the angles is called a right angle ; and the straight line which stands on the other is called a perpendicular to it.
Page 29 - 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.
Page 23 - RULE. From half the sum of the three sides, subtract each side separately; multiply the half sum and the three remainders together, and the square root of the product will be the area required.