 | Edward Augustus Kendall - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1811 - 516 pages
...bounded by three lines or sides." " A circle is a plane figure, bounded by a curve line called the circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre." An axiom is a manifest truth not requiring a demonstration : The following are... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811 - 458 pages
...bounded by thrrc lines or «ides." " A circle is a plane figure, bounded liy a curre line called the circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre." AD axiom is a manifest truth not requiring a detnonstratipn : The following areexamplcs... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse - Geography - 1814 - 696 pages
...between two lines, which meet each other. Circle. A circle is a regular figure, bounded by a curve line, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the centre. The circumference of a circle is the curve line, which bounds it. The radius of a circle is the distance... | |
 | Sidney Edwards Morse - Atlases - 1822 - 706 pages
...between two lines, which meet each other. Circle. A circle is a regular figure, bounded by a curve line, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the centre. The circumference of a circle is the curve line, which bounds it. The radius of a circle is a straight... | |
 | Alexander Ingram - Mathematics - 1830 - 458 pages
...sides and angles of spherical triangles. A SPHERE is a solid bounded by a curve surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the centre. A sphere may be conceived to be generated by a semicircle revolving about its diameter. The axis or... | |
 | Catharine Esther Beecher - Arithmetic - 1833 - 296 pages
...obtained by finding the cube root of 614125. A circle is a figure contained by one line called the circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre. The diameter of a circle, is a line drawn through the centre, dividing it into two... | |
 | Mrs. L. H. Tyler - Astronomy - 1837 - 302 pages
...earth ? What is a hemisphere? lit FIGURE 9. M (19.) DBF. 2. A circle is a plane figure, comprehended by a single curve line, called its circumference, every...part of which is equally distant from a point within, called its centre. The enclosed surface in fig. 3, represents a circle, the curve line its circumference... | |
 | Noah Webster - English language - 1844 - 1142 pages
...cercle ; It. circalo ; L. circuits.] 1. In geometry, a plane figure comprehended by a single curve fine, called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point called the centre. — 2. In popular u.«e, the line that comprehends the figure, the plane or surface... | |
 | Noah Webster - English language - 1846 - 1116 pages
...CtR'CLE, n. [Fr. cercle ; It. circolo ; L. eircvlut.] 1. In geometry, a piano figure comprehended by a single curve line, called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point called the centre. — 2. In papular VAC. the line tlictt comprehends the figure, U>e plane o? surface... | |
 | James Robinson (of Boston.) - 1847 - 304 pages
...figure is the sum of all its sides. 35. A CIRCLE is a plane surface bounded by a curve line, called the circumference ; every part of which is equally distant from a point within the figure, called the centre of the circle. The figure CDE is a circle. 36. THE RADIUS of a circle... | |
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A circle is a plane bounded by a single curved line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it called the centre. 
