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" The altitude of a pyramid or cone is the perpendicular distance from the ve~rtex to the base. "
The Eclectic School Geometry: A Revision of Evan's School Geometry - Page 141
by Evan Wilhelm Evans - 1884 - 155 pages
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The Second [-fifth and Sixth] Part of A Course of Mathematics: Adapted to ...

Jeremiah Day - Geometry - 1824 - 440 pages
...The base of an oblique cone is also a circle, but is not perpendicular to the axis. The height of a cone is the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the plane of the base. In a right cone, it is the length of the axis. The slant-height of a right cone is the distance from...
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The Principles of Plane Trigonometry, Mensuration, Navigation and Surveying ...

Jeremiah Day - Measurement - 1831 - 394 pages
...The base of an oblique cone is also a circle, but is not perpendicular to the axis. The height of a cone is the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the plane of the base. In a right cone, it is the length of the axis. The slant-height of a right cone is the distance from...
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A Treatise of Plane Trigonometry: To which is Prefixed a Summary View of the ...

Jeremiah Day - Logarithms - 1831 - 418 pages
...The base of an oblique cone is also a circle, but is not perpendicular to the axis. The height of a cone is the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the plane of the base. In a right cone, it is the length of the axis. The slant-height of a right cone is the distance from...
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A Course of Mathematics: Containing the Principles of Plane ..., Volumes 1-3

Jeremiah Day - Geometry - 1838 - 416 pages
...The base of an oblique cone is also a circle, but is not perpendicular to the axis. The height of a cone is the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the plane of the base. In a right cone, it is the length of the axis. The slant-height of a right cone is the distance from...
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A Course of Mathematics: Containing the Principles of Plane ..., Volumes 1-3

Jeremiah Day - Geometry - 1839 - 434 pages
...The base of an oblique cone is also a circle, but is not perpendicular to the axis. The height of a cone is the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the plane of the base. In a right cone, it is the length of the axis. The slant-height of a right cone is the distance from...
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A Practical System of Mensuration of Superficies and Solids ...

J. M. Scribner - Measurement - 1844 - 130 pages
...the verter, 6. The height of a cone is the fixed side of the triangle by which it is described, or the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the plane of the base ; as, JIB (fig. 2.) 7. The slant height of a right cone is the distance from the vertex to the circumference...
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A Treatise of Plane Trigonometry, and the Mensuration of Heights and ...

Jeremiah Day - Logarithms - 1848 - 354 pages
...The base of an oblique cone is also a circle, but is not perpendicular to the axis. The height of a cone is the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the plane of the base. In a right cone, it is the length of the axis. The slant.height of a right cone is the distance from...
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A Course of Mathematics: Containing the Principles of Plane Trigonometry ...

Jeremiah Day - Geometry - 1851 - 418 pages
...The base of an oblique cone is also a circle, but is not perpendicular to the axis. The height of a cone is the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the plane of the base. In a right cone, it is the length of the axis. The slant-height of a right cone is the distance from...
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A Treatise on Arithmetic, Combining Analysis and Synthesis: Adapted to the ...

James Stewart Eaton - Arithmetic - 1857 - 376 pages
...a ^rapezoid is the perpendicular distance between its parallel sides, as DA, 2d Fig., Def. 20. (d) The altitude of a pyramid or cone is the perpendicular distance from its vertex to its base or base produced. (e) The altitude of a prism, cylinder, prismoid, frustum of...
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The Progressive Higher Arithmetic, for Schools, Academies, and Mercantile ...

Horatio Nelson Robinson - Arithmetic - 1860 - 444 pages
...point at the top. 742. The Vertex of a pyramid or cone is the point in which the sides terminate. 743. The Altitude of a pyramid or cone is the perpendicular distance from the vortex to the base. NOTES. — 1. The slant freight of a cone is the distance from the vertex to the...
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