Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The ring or shackle of an anchor to which the cable is bent.
- noun A geometrical surface generated by the revolution of a circle about an axis lying in its plane, but exterior to it.
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Book II deals with the measurement of solids, the cylinder, prisms, pyramids and cones and frusta thereof, the sphere and a segment of it, the anchor-ring or tore, the five regular solids, and finally the two special solids of Archimedes's _Method_; full use is made of all
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In geometry he gave the first solution of the problem of the two mean proportionals, using a wonderful construction in three dimensions which determined a certain point as the intersection of three surfaces, (1) a certain cone, (2) a half-cylinder, (3) an anchor-ring or
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