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subtend

[suhb-tend, suhb-] / səbˈtɛnd, sʌb- /


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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

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

How do we discover that, in an isosceles triangle, the sides which subtend the equal angles are equal?

From A Handbook of Ethical Theory by George Stuart Fullerton

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

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

From The Way To Geometry by William Bedwell




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