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Definition of Semicircles
1. semicircle [n] - See also: semicircle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Semicircles
Literary usage of Semicircles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Collected Mathematical Papers of Henry John Stephen Smith by Henry John Stephen Smith (1894)
"All the semicircles, properly and improperly primitive, of determinant +1 are
... The Rational semicircles. Given any semicircle we can always find a ..."
2. The Greek Coins by John H. Kroll (1993)
"Overall Comment on Light-on-Dark Painted Pattern VIII: Unlike almost all
Dark-on-Light Painted versions of semicircles (see pp. 569-571 above), the single ..."
3. Geometrical Problems Deducible from the First Six Books of Euclid: Arranged by Miles Bland (1827)
"If a straight line be divided into any two parts, and upon the whole line and
one of the parts, as diameters, semicircles be described; to determine a point ..."
4. Geometrical Problems Deducible from the First Six Books of Euclid: Arranged by Miles Bland (1819)
"Let AB be divided into any two parts in the point C, and on AB, AC let semicircles
be described. Take AG : AC the duplicate of the given ratio, ..."
5. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1886)
"The head, or canopy, a plain arch, is reticulated, and at the back of the head
is a rudely formed female bands of semicircles, in slip, as are the lettering ..."
6. The Genesis of Art-form: An Essay in Comparative Aesthetics Showing the by George Lansing Raymond (1893)
"Places Corresponding to Head, Trunk, and Feet in a Picture—Necessity for Considering
them—Different Kinds of Contour—Arches—semicircles— ..."
7. Geometrical Problems Deducible from the First Six Books of Euclid, Arranged by Miles Bland (1819)
"On AD, and DC, segments of AC the diameter of the semicircle ABC let semicircles
AED, CFD be described ; from D draw DB perpendicular to AB, and . ..."
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