 | 1841 - 200 Seiten
...globe, or sphere. DEFINITION. — A globe or sphere is (J) a round body bounded by a surface every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre; a line passing from one side to the other through the centre is called the diameter, or axis. RULE.... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1841 - 334 Seiten
...having a circular base. 8. A sphere is a solid, bounded by one continued conveX surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be formed by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter, which... | |
 | John Lee COMSTOCK (and HOBLYN (Richard Dennis)), John Lee COMSTOCK - 1846 - 506 Seiten
...or spherical body, more usually called a sphere, bounded by one uniform convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. GNOMON. An apparatus used by the ancients for finding the altitudes and declinations of the celestial... | |
 | James Robinson (of Boston.) - 1847 - 304 Seiten
...the frustum of a cone. 7. A SPHERE, or GLOBE, is a solid, bounded by a convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be formed by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter. The... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1849 - 336 Seiten
...of another cellar of the same size, having the length, width, and depth equal ? ART. 284. A SPHERE is a solid bounded by one continued convex surface,...equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The diameter of a sphere is a straight line passing through the centre, and terminated by the surface... | |
 | Charles Guilford Burnham - 1850 - 350 Seiten
...having a circular base. 8. A sphere is a solid, bounded by one continued convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be formed by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter, which... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1850 - 368 Seiten
...in a point or vertex. 8. A sphere is a solid, bounded by one continued convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be formed by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter, which... | |
 | John Weale - 1850 - 590 Seiten
...bed or canopy Sphere, in geometry, a globe, a solid contained under one uniform surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre of the sphere, and may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter,... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1851 - 332 Seiten
...end 12 inches, and at the smaller end 6 inches ? Ans. 9.162-)- feet. THE SPHERE. ART. 348. A SPHERE is a solid, bounded by one continued convex surface,...part of which is equally distant from a point within, culled the centre. The axis or diameter of a sphere is a line passing through the centre, and terminated... | |
 | Ezra S. Winslow - 1853 - 264 Seiten
...or globe, is a perfectly round substance — a solid contained under a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. Its axis, or diameter, is any right line passing from a side through the centre to the opposite side.... | |
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A sphere is a solid, bounded by a curved surface, every part of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. 
