subtending

Now the canopied glory is realized to rain its glow on the whole subtending world, pervading it by insistent echo, eath/eth, even while effacing the spectral definite article in this transfusion.

Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008

The values that accommodate a work like Lead the Wants are values reflective of a shared willingness to participate in a fiction of significance and readability, with the subtending goal of securing a position of relevance for poetry in a world where the old relevances are in one way or another compromised.

K. Silem Mohammad Reads Elizabeth Bachinsky Lemon Hound 2008

Although what we perceive with our senses is solid matter moving about in empty space, in reality the material universe, including particles, stars, planets, rocks, and living organisms, is not material: matter-like things are standing, propagating, and interacting waves in a subtending medium.

Archive 2008-10-14 2008

Although what we perceive with our senses is solid matter moving about in empty space, in reality the material universe, including particles, stars, planets, rocks, and living organisms, is not material: matter-like things are standing, propagating, and interacting waves in a subtending medium.

Ervin Laszlo : EARTH, LIFE, AND MIND : THE PROMISE OF THE NEW HOLISM IN THE SCIENCES 2008

The values that accommodate a work like Lead the Wants are values reflective of a shared willingness to participate in a fiction of significance and readability, with the subtending goal of securing a position of relevance for poetry in a world where the old relevances are in one way or another compromised.

Archive 2008-09-01 Lemon Hound 2008

The geometer is always talking of squaring, subtending, apposing, as if he had in view action; whereas knowledge is the real object of the study.

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

Since that primeval time, the lands have been much elevated above the sea-level — eruptive rocks piercing in parts through them; deep rents and defiles have been suddenly formed in the subtending ridges through which some rivers escape outward.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

The whole of these lakes were let out by means of cracks or fissures made in the subtending sides by the upheaval of the country.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

I was much struck by the similarity of conformation and nature of the rocks on both sides of the continent; but there is a difference in the structure of the subtending ridges, as may be understood by the annexed ideal geological section.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

It is impossible to say how much farther to the north these subtending ridges may stretch.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004