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" A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points. "
The Elements of Euclid: Viz. the First Six Books, Together with the Eleventh ... - Page 1
by Euclides - 1816 - 528 pages
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The advanced class-book of modern geography, by W. Hughes and J.F. Williams ...

William Hughes - 1908 - 942 pages
...: ie a point indicates position only A Line is length without breadth. Its extremities are points. A Straight Line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points. A Plane is that which has only length and breadth, and is such that any two points being given, a straight...
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Mysticism in Modern Mathematics

Hastings Berkeley - Mathematics - 1910 - 279 pages
...Geometry, Part I/ in the Encyclopaedia Britannica,1 when he remarks that ' Euclid's Definition 4, 1 — A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points — must be meaningless to any one who has not the notion of straightness in his mind/ And the remark...
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Field and Colliery Surveying: A Primer Designed for the Use of Students of ...

Thomas Aloysius O'Donahue - Mine surveying - 1911 - 288 pages
...length, breadth, nor thickness. A line is length without breadth. The extremities of a line are pointa A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points, and is the shortest distance between any two points, as AB (Fig. 16). same straight line, as A (Fig....
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An Intermediate Logic

James Welton, Alexander James Monahan - Logic - 1911 - 544 pages
...another number. (6) A legislator is a member either of the House of Commons or of the House of Lords. (c) A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points. (d) An idle person is one who will not work when he can. 4. Show by examples the nature of the mistakes...
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Recreations in Mathematics

H. E. Licks - Mathematics - 1917 - 172 pages
...treatises on that subject. A point is defined to be that "which has no parts and which has no magnitude"; a straight line is that which "lies evenly between its extreme points." ... In this case the explanation is a great deal harder than the term to be explained, which must always...
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Recreations in Mathematics, with 60 Illustrations

H. E. Licks - 1917 - 224 pages
...treatises on that subject. A point is defined to be that "which has no parts and which has no magnitude"; a straight line is that which "lies evenly between its extreme points." ... In this case the explanation is a great deal harder than the term to be explained, which must always...
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Nonsense Novels

Stephen Leacock - 1923 - 260 pages
...said John Enderby, "henceforth let us stick to the narrow path. What is it that the Good Book says : 'A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points.' " X THE MAN IN ASBESTOS AN ALLEGORY OF THE FUTURE X. — The Man in Asbestos: An Allegory of the Future....
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The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science

English periodicals - 1874 - 500 pages
...a definition is to be attempted at all, it would be hard to produce a better than the old one — " A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points ;" but, of course, the word evenly as much requires definition as the word straight. Mr. Wilson adds...
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Popular Science Monthly, Volume 68

Science - 1906 - 600 pages
...has no magnitude. 2. A line is length without breadth. 3. The extremities of a line are points. 4. A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points. 6. A superficies is that which has only length and breadth. 7. A plane superficies is that in which,...
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Philosophical Magazine

Matter - 1874 - 546 pages
...a definition is to be attempted at all, it would be hard to produce a better than the old one — " A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points ;" but, of course, the word evenly as much requires definition as the word straiyht. Mr. Wilson adds...
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