Cyclopædia
Assuming solid is required, and angle is required, the following 6 results were found.
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ANGLE IN A SEMICIRCLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGLE%20IN%20A%20SEMICIRCLE
great Circles forming the Angle, intercepted between them. For the Properties of Spherical Angles, see SPHERICAL ANGLE. Solid Angle is the mutual Inclination of more than two Planes, or plane Angles, meeting in a Point, and not contained in the same...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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AXIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AXIS
AXIS properly signifies a line or long piece of iron or wood passing through the centre of a sphere, which is moveable upon the same. See SPHERE. In this sense we say the axis of a sphere, or globe; the axis, or axle-tree of a wheel, etc. See GLOBE,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ERRATAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php?view=article&id=3:ERRATA&catid=1209640500
read Sines. Sine, p. 81. col. 1. line 63, for the Arch EFC, read the Arch FC. Sine-Complement, line 2. for AE, read AH. Solid Angle, line 3. for Fig. 30. read Fig. 31. Star, p. 122. col. 2. line 20. for Fig. 31. read Fig. 7. and 1ine 24. for the Star C...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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ARCHhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCH
ARCH, ARK, Arcus, a part of any curved line; e.g., of a circle, ellipse, or the like. See CURVE. An arc of a circle is a part of the circumference thereof, less than a half, or semicircle—Such is AB (Tab. Geometry, fig. 27) See CIRCLE and CIRCUMFERENCE....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ANIMAL SECRETIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMAL%20SECRETION
ANIMAL SECRETION is the Act whereby the divers Juices of the Body are secreted or separated from the common Mass of Blood, by means of the Glands. See SECRETION, BLOOD, and GLAND. The Theory of Animal Secretion is one of the Improvements in Physic, for...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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APERTUREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APERTURE
APERTURE, Apertura, the Opening of anything; or a Hole, Cleft, or vacant Place in some otherwise solid, or continuous Subject. See OPENING. The Word comes from the Latin Apertura, of Aperire to open. In Geometry, Aperture is used for the Space left...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified