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 motions they subtend are concerned with vital functions; nutrition, respiration, circulation, assimilation, elimination, reproduction.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy
The lesser Congo delta is bounded north by the Banana or Malela stream, whose lower fork is "Pirates' Creek;" and south by the mangrove-clad drains, which subtend the main line: the base measures 12-15 miles.
From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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
For the side of the equilaterall triangle doth subtend 1/3 of the whole pheriphery.
From The Way To Geometry by William Bedwell
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