subtend
About 0.06 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To use an angle to delimit (mark off, enclose) part of a straight or curved line, for example an arc or the opposite side of a triangle.
A 43° angle subtends an arc of about 0.75 meters on a circle with a radius of 1 meter.
- verb To extend or stretch opposite something; to be part of a straight or curved line that is opposite to and delimits an angle.
A hypotenuse subtends the right angle of a right triangle.
- verb To form the central angle of a circle underneath an arc.
The points A and B on the circumference form the arc AB, which subtends the central angle θ.
- verb To stand beneath or close to, as a bract at the base of a flower.
Similar words
delimit tangentialize shade subtilize define subtilise admeasure demarcate delineate tenuate
Often followed by
an the a at equal angles and them it
Word family
subtended subtending subtends
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