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

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 Lanier, Sidney

He did not define "subtend," supposing such words to be already understood.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

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 Warren, Henry White