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 the side of the equilaterall triangle doth subtend 1/3 of the whole pheriphery.

From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William

The motions they subtend are concerned with vital functions; nutrition, respiration, circulation, assimilation, elimination, reproduction.

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella

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