Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb Mathematics To be opposite to and delimit.
- transitive verb To underlie so as to enclose or surround.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To extend under or be opposite to: a geometrical terra: as, the side of a triangle which subtends the right angle.
- In botany, to embrace in its axil, as a leaf, bract, etc.: as, in many Compositæ the florets are subtended by bracts called chaff.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To extend under, or be opposed to.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
extend orstretch underneath oropposite something - verb mathematics To enclose an
arc on acircle with anangle
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be opposite to; of angles and sides, in geometry
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Truly, the obsessions which subtend that novel are without a doubt the strongest of all those which run through my work, including Empire of the Sun.
Ballardian » ‘Le passé composé de J. G. Ballard’: JGB on Empire of the Sun 2009
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And that this was not correct because these attractions all lie in the same direction and subtend a total of twelve degrees of arc.
A debate centering around etymological and logical fallacies « Motivated Grammar 2010
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Anyhow, when Blondie told me the range of the targets, I figured the difference between the two and realized what the subtend value was for the dots at that range.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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The Body by Jenny Boully is a work of poetry, composed entirely of footnotes that subtend blank pages and comment upon an invisible, if not imaginary, text that allegedly occupies this poetic vacuum.
Quick Review 05 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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If, as the contextual theory also implies, observation-statements depend on theoretical principles, any inadequacy in these principles will be transmitted to the observation-statements they subtend, whence our beliefs about what is observed may be in error, and even our experiences themselves can be criticised for giving only an approximate account of what is going on in reality.
Paul Feyerabend Preston, John 2009
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Anyhow, when Blondie told me the range of the targets, I figured the difference between the two and realized what the subtend value was for the dots at that range.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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Anyhow, when Blondie told me the range of the targets, I figured the difference between the two and realized what the subtend value was for the dots at that range.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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Most red-dot sights offer dots that subtend either 4 minutes of angle at 100 yards, or 3 or 2 minutes.
Strengths and Weaknesses of Red Dot Sights for Hunting Whitetail Deer 2007
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D. involucrata is renown for the large bracts, up to 30 centimeters (cm) long, that subtend the base of the inflorescence, giving the tree in flower a very striking appearance.
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The latter species is revered in China for its curious inflorescence in which bracts up to 30 centimeters (cm) long subtend the flowers.
jwjarvis commented on the word subtend
It is the ability, first, to make a choice, to evaluate the consequences of that chosen course of action, and to prize the outcomes, and then it is the capacity to marshal one’s energy in effective pursuit of the consequences or goals subtended by that choice.
December 31, 2010
eyebeams commented on the word subtend
"The mind's eye, scanning beneath the surface of the literal sense, soon sees that subtending Dante's journey is not only the conversion from sin to grace, but the progress too of the soul of Everyman" David H. Higgins University of Bristol in a foreword to C H Sisson's translation of Dante's Divine Comedy - Pan Books 1980.
March 22, 2017