 | Euclid, John Playfair - Euclid's Elements - 1846 - 334 pages
...circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 14. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter...part of the circumference cut off by the diameter. 10 15. Rectilineal figures are those which are contained by straight lines. 16. Trilateral figures,... | |
 | Euclides - 1846 - 292 pages
...circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. xvin. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter and the part of the circumference it cut off. xix. A segment of a circle is the figure contained by a straight line, and the circumference... | |
 | Euclides - 1847 - 128 pages
...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,...part of the circumference cut off by the diameter. The subjoined figure is a Circle, of which the curved line AFGCBO is the circumference; the point E,... | |
 | Euclides - 1848 - 52 pages
...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...the circumference cut off by the diameter. XIX. The centre of a semicircle is the same with that of the circle. XX. Rectilineal figures are those which... | |
 | Charles Richson - 1848 - 98 pages
...is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. ' ' 3. "A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter,...part of the circumference cut off by the diameter;" or in other words, it is half a circle. /• — v. 47 4. "A quadrant is the quarter of a circle."... | |
 | Euclid, Thomas Tate - 1849 - 120 pages
...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...of the circumference cut off by the diameter. XIX. " A segment of a circle is the figure contained by a straight line, and the circumference it cuts off."... | |
 | Janet Taylor - Nautical astronomy - 1851 - 674 pages
...line, as ABH, drawn through the centre of the circle and terminated each way by the circumference. A semicircle is the figure contained by a diameter...part of the circumference cut off by the diameter, as ADH, or AGH. The half circumference contains 180°. The radius of a circle is a straight line drawn... | |
 | Euclides - 1852 - 152 pages
...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...part of the circumference cut off by the diameter. [A is called the centre of the semicircle as well as of the circle.] XIX. XX. Rectilineal figures are... | |
 | Euclides - 1853 - 146 pages
...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...of the circumference cut off by the diameter. XIX. "A segment of a circle is the figure contained by a straight line, and the circumference it cuts off."... | |
 | Euclides - Geometry - 1853 - 176 pages
...line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. XVIII. A semicircle b the figure contained by a diameter and the part of the circumference cut off by the diameter. XIX. A segment of a circle is the figure contained by a straight line, and the circumference it cuts off.... | |
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A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference. 
