subtend

The line with letters that subtend 5 minutes of an arc from 20 feet represents the smallest letters that a person with normal acuity should be able to read at that distance.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

And two sides of the ordinate quinquangle doe subtend 2/5 of the same.

From The Way To Geometry by William Bedwell

He did not define "subtend," supposing such words to be already understood.

From The Teaching of Geometry by David Eugene Smith

Euclid stated the proposition thus, "If in a triangle two angles be equal to one another, the sides which subtend the equal angles will also be equal to one another."

From The Teaching of Geometry by David Eugene Smith

Any of the parts of the flower may thus subtend a flower-bud, though probably the new buds more frequently originate in the axils of the sepals than in the other whorls.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters