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)

Angles are distinguished by the number of degrees they subtend, to 360°, or the whole circumference of a circle.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

The motions they subtend are concerned with vital functions; nutrition, respiration, circulation, assimilation, elimination, reproduction.

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella