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

The world's full of highly pertinent male-female situations whose fictional exploration does subtend a viable sociological function�and yet this is the best you can come up with.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Warren, Henry White

It is well known that the same extension at a near distance shall subtend a greater angle, and at a farther distance a lesser angle.

From A Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision by Berkeley, George

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 Fullerton, George Stuart