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ABCD altitude approach the limit axis base bisector bisects Book called centre chord circle circumference circumscribed coincide common cone construct cylinder describe diagonals diameter diedral distance divided Draw line drawn equal equally distant equilateral equivalent EXERCISES extremities faces fall figure Find follows frustum Given Given line given point greater Hence homologous hypotenuse included inscribed intersecting isosceles lateral area length less manner measured meet middle point multiplied Note opposite parallel parallelogram passing perimeter perpendicular plane polygon prism produced Proof PROP proportional Prove pyramid quadrilateral radii radius rectangle regular Required respectively right angles segment sides similar solid sphere spherical square straight line surface tangent THEOREM triangle triangle ABC unit vertex vertices volume Whence
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Page 58 - The straight line joining the middle points of two sides of a triangle is parallel to the third side, and equal to half of it.
Page 322 - A right circular cylinder may be generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides as an axis.
Page 371 - A zone is a portion of the surface of a sphere included between two parallel planes.
Page 49 - ... the three sides of one are equal, respectively, to the three sides of the other. 2. Two right triangles are congruent if...
Page 336 - A spherical polygon is a portion of the surface of a sphere bounded by three or more arcs of great circles. The...
Page 151 - If one leg of a right triangle is double the other, the perpendicular from the vertex of the right angle to the hypotenuse divides it into segments which are to each other as 1 to 4.
Page 328 - A sphere is a solid bounded by a surface all points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre.
Page 205 - S' denote the areas of two © whose radii are R and R', and diameters D and D', respectively. Then, | = "* § = ££ = £• <§337> That is, the areas of two circles are to each other as the squares of their radii, or as the squares of their diameters.
Page 73 - A chord is a straight line joining the extremities of an arc ; as AB.
Page 202 - The circumferences of two circles are to each other as their radii. Given C and C" the circumferences of two © whose radii are R and R', respectively.