 | Lloyd Kahn - 2000 - 184 pages
...firms Carl Xeiss and Dyckerhoff and Widmann for the shell-form construction of the planetarium domes. great circle »: a circle formed on the surface of...plane that passes through the center of the sphere; specif: such a circle on the surface of the earth an arc of which constitutes the shortest distance... | |
 | V. Rao Vemuri - 568 pages
...000 years; , mahAvRttaM n. Great Circle; circle formed on the surface of a sphere, such as the Earth, by the intersection of a plane that passes through the center of the sphere; . mahASaMkhaM n. (1) the great conch shell; (2) one followed by 19 zeros in the traditional Indian... | |
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Any other circle formed on the surface of a sphere by the intersection of a plane not passing through the center of the sphere is termed a small circle. 