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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
subtend .
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Examples
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Shuffling is one example of something seemingly ordinary that subtends an elegant mathematical structure.
Pick a Card, Any Card Alex Stone 2011
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A 72-inch screen seen from 10 feet a nominal couch-to-TV distance subtends a diagonal angle of 33 degrees, which happens to be about the same as watching a 50-foot movie screen from a seat in the middle of the theater.
Seth Shostak: Are Movie Theaters Doomed? Seth Shostak 2011
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A 72-inch screen seen from 10 feet a nominal couch-to-TV distance subtends a diagonal angle of 33 degrees, which happens to be about the same as watching a 50-foot movie screen from a seat in the middle of the theater.
Seth Shostak: Are Movie Theaters Doomed? Seth Shostak 2011
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My blood makes air and cells; my moon subtends the sky; my tides squeeze life out of rock.
Oscillation, for Carol Larissa Shmailo 2011
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A 72-inch screen seen from 10 feet a nominal couch-to-TV distance subtends a diagonal angle of 33 degrees, which happens to be about the same as watching a 50-foot movie screen from a seat in the middle of the theater.
Seth Shostak: Are Movie Theaters Doomed? Seth Shostak 2011
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A 72-inch screen seen from 10 feet a nominal couch-to-TV distance subtends a diagonal angle of 33 degrees, which happens to be about the same as watching a 50-foot movie screen from a seat in the middle of the theater.
Seth Shostak: Are Movie Theaters Doomed? Seth Shostak 2011
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(The ball subtends a circle of incident sunlight, not a sphere's worth of area.)
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Replacing "conditioned necessity" (in Agamben's sense out of Aristotle) with what might be termed instead an imperative contingency, the virtual stands to the actual, or subtends it, as its condition of possibility.
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What this further hints at - and admittedly only hints at - is the pseudo-philosophy of scientism that subtends, that undergirds so much of this officious trumpery.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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God without Being: "the Ungrund is contaminated from the start by the universe it subtends, making the impulse to misrecognize the groundless as the primal ground, and thereby firmly reappropriate it to ontotheology, quite irresistible";
Hegel on Buddhism 2007
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