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
Any of the parts of the flower may thus subtend a flower-bud, though probably the new buds more frequently originate in the axils of the sepals than in the other whorls.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
He did not define "subtend," supposing such words to be already understood.
From The Teaching of Geometry by David Eugene Smith
The condition of resolution of a double line whose components subtend an angle θ is that θ must exceed λ/a.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various
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