subtend
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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
But one thousand feet away I cannot distinguish individual bricks; their width, being only two inches, does not subtend an angle apprehensible to my vision.
From Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Henry White Warren
For in our sweeping arc from Æschylus to the present time, fifty years subtend scarcely any space; we may say then these men are born together.
From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Sidney Lanier
Sitting in my study here, I glance out of the window and discern separate bricks, in houses five hundred feet away, with my unaided eye; they subtend a discernible angle.
From Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Henry White Warren
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
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