 | Evan Wilhelm Evans - Geometry - 1884 - 242 pages
...arc may be taken as the measure of its subtended angle. To this end the circumference is conceived to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, each degree into 60 minutes, and each minute into 60 seconds. Then, whatever number of degrees, etc., an arc contains,... | |
 | Charles Davies, Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1885 - 538 pages
...angle. For convenience, the quadrant is divided into 90 equal parts, each of which is called a degree ; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ;...and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. Degrees, minutes, and seconds, are denoted by the symbols °, ', ". Thus, the expression 7° 22' 33",... | |
 | Geography - 1885 - 150 pages
...Every circle is divided into 360 equal parts called degrees ; each degree is divided И" m' ... into GO equal parts called minutes; and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds. The smaller the circle, the short- 18g er are the degrees. Degrees DECREES OF THE CIRCLE. are marked... | |
 | Charles Davies - Geometry - 1886 - 352 pages
...Definitions. 28 The circumference of a circle is used for the measure. ment of angles. For this purpose it is divided into 360 equal parts called degrees, each...parts called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal pans called second s. The degrees, minutes, and seconds are marked thus ° ' " ; and 9° 18' 16", are... | |
 | William Findlay Shunk - Railroad engineering - 1886 - 376 pages
...inclndes one-quarter of the circle, and is the measure of a right angle. Each degree is further divided into 60 equal parts called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds. Degrees, minutes, and seconds are denoted by the symbols °, 1, ": thus the expression 7° 221 33"... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - Arithmetic - 1886 - 392 pages
...about a point in a plane is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees. Each degree is subdivided into 60 equal parts, called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. Likewise the circumference of a circle is divided into 3GO equal arcs, each corresponding to an angle... | |
 | Nathaniel Bowditch - Nautical astronomy - 1888 - 704 pages
...small, are supposed to have their circumference divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; and each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ;...and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds ; and so on into thirds, fourths, Jtc. ; and an arc is said to be of as many degrees as it contains... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - 1888 - 372 pages
...sjiits containing 9 yd. 2 qr. each ; how many suits did he make ? Ans. 1 7. LONGITUDE AND TIME. 224. Every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees. Since the sun appears to pass from east to west round the earth, or through 360°, once in every 24... | |
 | Nathan Fellowes Dupuis - Geometry - 1889 - 370 pages
...practical purposes the right angle is divided into 90 equal parts called degrees ; each degree is divided into 60 equal parts called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds. 20 seconds and six-sevenths of a second, follows : — 51° 25' 42f . This is denoted as Theorem. —... | |
 | William Findlay Shunk - Railroad engineering - 1890 - 360 pages
...includes one-quarter of the circle, and is the measure of a right angle. Each degree is further divided into 60 equal parts called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds. Degrees, minutes, and seconds are denoted by the symbols °, ', ": thus the expression 7° 22' 33"... | |
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The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. 
