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What is the pin of a sundial whose shadow points to the hour called?
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It is called a Gnomon
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Has the God Zeus had an affair with the Goddess Aphrodite?
It isn't sure; he may have, she certainly had a child called Priapos whose father is sometimes called Zeus or Dionysus or Adonis.
What is a circle whose center is located on the circumfrance of another circle?
A circle whose center is located on the circumference of another circle is called a tangent circle. The point where the two circles meet is called the point of tangency. In this case, the radius of the tangent circle is perpendicular to the radius of the original circle at the point of tangency.
What is a Zariski space?
A Zariski space is another name for a Zariski-Riemann space - a locally ringed space of a subring of a field K, whose points are valuation rings containing k and contained in K, which generalize the Riemann surface of a complex curve.
Which planet has 9 letters?
There is no planet whose name contains 9 letters
What is The star of the ocean?
It could mean an Echinoderm called a "starfish" It could mean the island of Mauritius whose motto is "Stella Clavisque Maris Indici" meaning "Star and Key of the Indian Ocean". It could mean the Virgin Mary
What is a segment whose endpoints are points on a circle?
It's called a chord.
A line segment whose end points lie on a circle is called?
chord
What four hemispheres use latitude and longitude?
The half of the Earth that includes all points whose latitudes are northof the equator is called the northern Hemisphere.The half of the Earth that includes all points whose latitudes are southof the equator is called the southern Hemisphere.The half of the Earth that includes all points from the Prime Meridian westto 180° longitude is called the western Hemisphere.The half of the Earth that includes all points from the Prime Meridian eastto 180° longitude is called the eastern Hemisphere.
What was gnomen stick used for?
A gnomen stick, also known as a gnomon stick, was used as a simple tool to measure the angle of the sun or stars to determine time of day or season. It was commonly used in ancient civilizations for timekeeping and navigation. The length of the shadow it cast was used to estimate the time of day or position of the sun in the sky.
What is the round 3 dimensional object whose surface at all points is the same distance from its center?
That is called a sphere.
What is 'shadow' in Italian?
Ombra is an Italian equivalent of 'shadow'. It's a feminine noun whose definite article is 'la' ['the'], and whose indefinite article is 'una' ['a, one']. It's pronounced 'OHM-brah'.
Whose shadow warned the children off the Radley porch?
Boo Radley's shadow warned the children off the Radley porch.
The set of points whose coordinates satisfy an equation is called what the of the equation?
Just took the vocab test the answer is graph.
The line segment whose end points are on a circle is?
In general, a "chord", but the particular set of chords that pass through the center are called diameter.
What is meant by fixed points in maths?
They are points whose positions do not change under transformations.
A Polygon whose vertices are on a circle and whose other points are inside the circle?
Inscribed Polygon
What is a segment whose endpoints are points on a cirlce?
A chord.
