 | Euclides - 1814 - 560 pages
...equal to one another, and the diameter bisects them, that is, divides them into two equal parts. NB A parallelogram is a four-sided figure, of which the opposite sides are parallel ; and the diameter is the straight line joining tico of its opposite angles. Let ACDB be a parallelogram, of which BC... | |
 | Charles Butler - Mathematics - 1814 - 528 pages
...such as are in the same plane, and which, being produced ever so far both ways, do not meet. 3 1 . A parallelogram is a four-sided figure, of which the opposite sides are parallel. 32. The diameter or diagonal of a parallelogram is a straight line whicb joins any two of its opposite... | |
 | John Playfair - 1819 - 354 pages
...are equal to one another, and the diameter bisects it, that is, divides it into two equal parts. NB A Parallelogram is a four-sided figure, of which the opposite sides are parallel ; and the diameter is the straight line joining two of its opposite angles. Let ACDB be a parallelogram, of which BC is... | |
 | John Playfair - Circle-squaring - 1819 - 350 pages
...are equal to one another, and the diameter bisects it, that is, divides it into two etjual parts. NB A Parallelogram is a four-sided figure, of which the opposite sides are parallel ; apd the diameter is the straight line joining two of its opposite angles. Let ACDB be a parallelogram,... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - Logic - 1822 - 312 pages
...tell us, that "a square is a figure which has four equal sides, and four right angles," and that " a parallelogram is a foursided figure, of which the opposite sides are parallel." (Art. 170. lllus. and Corol.) Analysis. The things defined are species, that is, the square and vhe... | |
 | Peter Nicholson - Mathematics - 1825 - 1046 pages
...equal to one another, and the diameter bisects them, thai is, divides them into two equal parts. NB A parallelogram is a four-sided figure, of which the opposite sides are parallel ; and the diameter is the straight line joining two of its opposite angles. Let ABCD be a parallelogram, of which BC is... | |
 | Euclid, John Playfair - Euclid's Elements - 1826 - 326 pages
...another, an 1 the diameter biseets it, that is^ divides it into two equal parts. . XB A Paratlelop-am is a four-sided figure, of which the opposite sides are parallel ; and the diameter is the straight Jine loining two of its opposite angles. Let ACDB be a parallelogram, of whieh BC is... | |
 | Robert Simson - Trigonometry - 1827 - 546 pages
...equal to one another, and the diameter bisects them, that is, divides them into two equal parts. NB A parallelogram is a four-sided figure, of which the opposite sides are parallel : and the diameter 1s the straight line joining two of its opposite angles. Let ACDB be a parallelogram, of which BC is... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - Logic - 1835 - 312 pages
...will tell us that " a square is a figure which has four equal sides ind four right angles," and that " a parallelogram is a foursided figure, of which the opposite sides are parallel." (Art. 170. Illus. and Carol.) Analysis. The things defined are species ; that is, the square and the... | |
 | Robert Mudie - Mathematics - 1836 - 524 pages
...properties of PARALLELOGRAMS, RECTANGLES, AND SQUARES, and the relations which they have to triangles. A PARALLELOGRAM is a four-sided figure, of which the opposite sides are parallel ; and a line joining the opposite angles either way, is called the diameter of the parallelogram. This figure... | |
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A parallelogram is a four.sided figure, of which the opposite sides are parallel; and the diameter is the straight line joining two of its opposite angles. 
