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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

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 Henry White Warren

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

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

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy

How do we discover that, in an isosceles triangle, the sides which subtend the equal angles are equal?

From A Handbook of Ethical Theory by George Stuart Fullerton