 | Charles Davies - Surveying - 1883 - 578 pages
...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",... | |
 | Charles Davies, Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1885 - 538 pages
...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... | |
 | William Findlay Shunk - Railroad engineering - 1886 - 376 pages
...which 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... | |
 | Charles Davies - Geometry - 1886 - 352 pages
...measure. ment of angles. For this purpose it is divided into 360 equal parts called degrees, each degree into 60 equal 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... | |
 | Nathaniel Bowditch - Nautical astronomy - 1888 - 704 pages
...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... | |
 | Nathan Fellowes Dupuis - History - 1889 - 370 pages
...angle is denoted by the symbol |. The symbol J_ also denotes two right angles or a straight angle. Def. 3. — When two angles together make up a right angle...second, follows : — 51° 25' 42f . This is denoted as Theorem. — Through a given point in a line only one perpendicular can be drawn to the line. The line... | |
 | William Findlay Shunk - Railroad engineering - 1890 - 360 pages
...which 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"... | |
 | John H. Macke - Carpet laying - 1891 - 244 pages
...correctly given. THE ClRCLE. For practical purposes, the circumference of a circle is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees; each degree is divided...and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. To find the diameter when the circumference is given. RULE. Divide the circumference by 3.1416. Example.... | |
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Every circumference of a. circle, whether the circle be large or small, is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts called degrees. Each degree is divided into 60 equal parts called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds. 
