subtend

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TRY IT #8 Find the arc length along a circle of radius 10 units subtended by an angle of 215°.

From Textbooks • Dec. 1, 2021

Find the length of an arc in a circle of radius 7 meters subtended by the central angle of 85°.

From Textbooks • Dec. 1, 2021

The parallax is also the angle that lines AC and BC make—in mathematical terms, the angle subtended by the baseline.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

Recall that, in a circle of radius r, the length s of an arc subtended by a central angle of θ radians is s = rθ.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

Flowers.—Yellow; five or six lines long; in dense clusters, subtended by an involucre of five distinct bracts.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth