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
We conclude that a double line cannot be fairly resolved unless its components subtend an angle exceeding that subtended by the wave-length of light at a distance equal to the horizontal aperture.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various
The motions they subtend are concerned with vital functions; nutrition, respiration, circulation, assimilation, elimination, reproduction.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy
It is well known that the same extension at a near distance shall subtend a greater angle, and at a farther distance a lesser angle.
From A Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision by George Berkeley
For in our sweeping arc from Æschylus to the present time, fifty years subtend scarcely any space; we may say then these men are born together.
From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Sidney Lanier
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