subtend

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The radian measure of angle θ is the length of the arc it subtends on the unit circle.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

The words sharp and pungent both originally meant something tactile and visual: something that feels pointy or subtends a small visual angle, but both words can be applied to tastes and smells as well.

From Slate • Sep. 21, 2014

Every time it’s retold, it gathers into itself all annotations and variations on itself, which become part of it — it’s “an infinitely recursive epic that subtends and engulfs everything about it.”

From Time • Apr. 11, 2012

An axillary flower stands between the bract or leaf which subtends it and the axis or stem which bears this bract or leaf.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

Instead the rich vigor of the brine subtends them and bears them, tanged with salt, to our deeper delectation.

From Old Plymouth Trails by Packard, Winthrop