Subtend Definition

səb-tĕnd
subtended, subtending, subtends
verb
subtended, subtending, subtends
To extend under or be opposite to in position.
Each side of a triangle subtends the opposite angle.
Webster's New World
To enclose in an angle, as between a leaf and its stem.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Subtend

  • Latin subtendere to extend underneath sub- sub- tendere to extend ten- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin subtendere; sub under + tendere to stretch, extend. See tend.

    From Wiktionary

Subtend Sentence Examples

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

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

  • We conclude that a double line cannot be fairly resolved unless its components subtend an angle exceeding that subtended by the wave-length of light at a distance equal to the horizontal aperture.

  • Each of the twenty triangular faces subtend at the centre the same angle as is subtended by four whole and six half faces of the Platonic icosahedron; in other words, the solid is determined by the twenty planes which can be drawn through the vertices of the three faces contiguous to any face of a Platonic icosahedron.

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Words Starting With

SSUSUB

Words Ending With

DNDEND

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subtend

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