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
He did not define "subtend," supposing such words to be already understood.
From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene
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
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 Smith, David Eugene
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