The northern side is subtended by three large cisterns, all strengthened at the inner angles by the stepped buttresses first noticed when we were exploring Magháir Shu'ayb.
The solid angle subtendedby any surface at a point is measured by the quotient of its apparent surface by the square of its distance from that point.
The simplest conception of an arc of one second is reached by thinking of it as the angle subtended by a short line at a distance of two hundred and six thousand times its length.
It is equal to the angle subtended by the radius of the earth's orbit, as seen from the star.
We distinguish at a distance, by the eye only, trunks of trees insulated in a vast plain, though the subtended angle be under twenty-five seconds.
Nevertheless, the angle which the peak of the Azores subtended was so great, that the captain of the Pizarro was of opinion this volcano must be visible at more than 40 or 42 leagues.
It is the angle subtended by twenty-six feet at a distance of 2,000 miles.
Thus, in the triangle A C K, the angle at C is subtended by the side A K, the angle at A by C K, and the angle at K by C A.
In like manner, a side is said to be subtended by an angle, as A K by the angle at C.
Euclid also stated this more briefly, but less satisfactorily, thus, "In any triangle the greater angle is subtended by the greater side.
In the same circle or in equal circles, if two arcs are equal, they are subtended by equal chords; and if two arcs are unequal, the greater is subtended by the greater chord, and conversely.
Euclid dismisses all this with the simple theorem, "In equal circles equal circumferences are subtendedby equal straight lines.
A line through the center of a circle perpendicular to a chord bisects the chord and the arcs subtended by it.
It will be remembered that, on the thirteenth, the earth subtended an angular breadth of twenty-five degrees.
Great decrease in the earth's apparent diameter, which now subtended from the balloon an angle of very little more than twenty-five degrees.
The ratio between the limiting angles subtended by the periodic structure of the gauze and the diameter of the wire was (.
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.
Looking inland we find the shore mostly subtended by a marigot, or salt-water lagoon, a miniature of those regular rivers which made the Slave Coast what it was.
On the left or western side of the road the Akankon ridge issubtended by a hollow, the valley of a streamlet in rainy weather.
In other words, it is the angle subtended at the distance of that particular star by the radius of the earth's orbit.
If the mirror subtends a large angle at the light-source, a greater amount of light is intercepted and rendered parallel than in the case of smaller subtended angles; hence, mirrors are large and of as short focus as practicable.
Heliocentric parallax, the parallax of a body with reference to the sun, or the angle subtended at the body by lines drawn from it to the earth and sun; as, the heliocentric parallax of a planet.
Horizontal parallax, the geocentric parallx of a heavenly body when in the horizon, or the angle subtended at the body by the earth's radius.
Defn: The parallax of the sun, that is, the angle subtendedat the sun by the semidiameter of the earth.
The angular distance of these two stars in the heavens is not so great as the angle subtended by a line an inch long viewed at a distance of half a mile.
The spherical angle subtended by any small surface whose plane is at right angles to the line of sight is inversely as the square of the distance.
The word brightness is here taken as a measure of the amount of light falling on the pupil per unit of spherical angle subtended by the luminous surface.
The apparent surface brightness corresponding to each spectral type is pretty well known, and by dividing it into the total apparent brightness, we have the angular area subtended by the star, quite independent of the star's distance.
We have already shown how the angular diameters subtendedby many of the stars have been estimated, through the relation of surface brightness and spectral type.
Beneath swelled and subtended a mighty valley in the lap of stone-crowned hills--a rare expanse of multitudinous browns.
These latter subtended the level ground and swelled and billowed under waves of colourless light that raced free as the wind over another year's hay harvest.
Above it stretched the heather-clad undulations of Scor Hill, and beneath subtended forest-hidden slopes.
The glare of the sun that is reflected from each point of the surface of a mirror forms a cone of light whose vertical angle is constant, and equal to that subtended by the sun.
But this represents only the anglesubtended by the star's disk.
The extremely small angle subtended by this enormous disk is explained by the great distance of the star, which is about 160 light-years.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "subtended" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
