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

The cells in the brain that subtend cardiac and respiratory activity must be even more able to do without rest, since their action is ceaseless during life.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

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

Euclid stated the proposition thus, "If in a triangle two angles be equal to one another, the sides which subtend the equal angles will also be equal to one another."

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene