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
Let there be therefore two ordinate quinquangles, the first aeiou; The second ysrlm; each of whose sides let them subtend two sides of a decangle; to wit, utym, let it subtend ya, and am.
From The Way To Geometry by William Bedwell
And while despoiling these smaller muscles which subtend gentle and delicate artistries, the crude larger ones, hypertrophied by athletic activities, become alike a burden and a curse to their possessor.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy
He did not define "subtend," supposing such words to be already understood.
From The Teaching of Geometry by David Eugene Smith
And two sides of the ordinate quinquangle doe subtend 2/5 of the same.
From The Way To Geometry by William Bedwell
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