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.
Many a perfect and eternal realm, merely potential in existence but definite in constitution, will thus subtendnature and be what a rational philosophy might call the ideal.
Where these unexplained facts are mental it will not be hard to do more systematically what common sense has done already, and to attach them, as we attach love or patriotism, to the natural crises that subtend them.
If the unification of nature were complete sense would evidently fall within it; it is to subtend and sustain the sensible flux that intelligence acknowledges first stray material objects and then their general system.
But one thousand feet away I cannot distinguish individual bricks; their width, being only two inches, does not subtend an angle apprehensible to my vision.
Sitting in my study here, I glance out of the window and discern separate bricks, in houses five hundred feet away, with my unaided eye; they subtend a discernible angle.
This would subtend a greater angle seen from star A than from star B.
So then, the length of the Image PT would by the Rules of Vulgar Opticks subtend an Angle of half a Degree at the Prism, and by Consequence be equal to the breadth vw; and therefore the Image would be round.
It is well known that the same extension at a near distance shall subtend a greater angle, and at a farther distance a lesser angle.
And while despoiling these smaller muscles which subtendgentle and delicate artistries, the crude larger ones, hypertrophied by athletic activities, become alike a burden and a curse to their possessor.
The cells in the brain that subtend cardiac and respiratory activity must be even more able to do without rest, since their action is ceaseless during life.
Leitneria floridana the upper scales of the male catkin occasionallysubtend an ovary.
Any of the parts of the flower may thus subtend a flower-bud, though probably the new buds more frequently originate in the axils of the sepals than in the other whorls.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "subtend" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
