subtend's Usage Examples:

The solid angles subtended by all normal sections of a cone at the vertex are therefore equal, and since the attractions of these sections on a particle at the vertex are proportional to their distances from the vertex, they are numerically equal to one another and to the solid angle of the cone.

Note that the relative poses of the vehicles in Figure 5 are stable even tho the vehicles subtend only a few pixels.

718; µ is the coefficient of friction and 0 the angle, measured in radians,, subtended by the arc of contact between the rope and the wheel.

15, B, Sc) is the first and only leaf of an axillary shoot (b) borne on that side of the shoot, the axis of which is suppressed, opposite the subtending bract (fig.

In the course of constructions for surfaces to reflect to one and the same point (1) all rays in whatever direction passing through another point, (2) a set of parallel rays, Anthemius assumes a property of an ellipse not found in Apollonius (the equality of the angles subtended at a.

The cones, about the size of a small walnut, bear spirally arranged imbricated scales which subtend the three-angled winged seeds.

), in America by stating the angle subtended by a chord ioo ft.

The galaxy subtends an area 17 by 13 arc minutes in size.

The potential at any point due to a magnetic shell is the product of its strength into the solid angle w subtended by its edge at the given point, or V Fu.

This constant length subtends an angle of about 40" at the earth; the " constant of aberration " is half this angle.

The plants grow from a bulb or short rhizome; the inflorescence is an apparent umbel formed of several shortened monochasial cymes and subtended by a pair of large bracts.

Synonyms:

be, delimit,

Antonyms:

agree, be well, change,