It would be interesting to ascertain the relation which they bear to tile great lines of vulcanism in the far interior, the Haura'n and the Harrah, subtending the coast mountains.
There is great interest and a general importance in this large coast-subtending eruptive range, whose eastern counterslope demands long and careful study.
In Africa we should call it the "true" subtending the "false" coast; delightful Dahome compared with leprous Lagos.
The Gambia River still exports small quantities of dust supposed to have been washed in the Ghauts, or sea-subtending ridges, of the interior.
On the right bank, subtending the bed, their husbands have sunk the usual chimney-hole to scratch quartz from the bounding-wall of the reef.
We have now everywhere traced the trade from Gambia to the Gold Coast, and we may fairly conclude that all the metal comes from a single chain of Ghauts subtending the maritime region.
The natives, here and elsewhere, prospect for and work the bank-reefs after the subtending gutter-bed has proved auriferous.
Gold had been found in it by the women, and this, as usual, gave rise to the discovery of its subtending reef.
It would probably contain, like the sea-subtending mountains of Midian, large veins of eminently metalliferous quartz, outcropping from the surface and forming extensions of the reefs below.
Miles at the centre of the moon's disc, subtending an angle of one second of arc - 1.
Selenographical arc at the centre of the moon's surface, subtending an angle of one second of arc - 3 min.
A more or less modified leafsubtending a flower or belonging to an inflorescence, or sometimes cauline.
Spathe surrounding or subtending the spadix; flowers naked, i.
Achenes obovate, not winged nor notched at the apex, and without pappus, deciduous with the subtending scale and 2 or 3 of the inner chaff.
Chaff scale-like, embracing or subtendingthe achenes.
I had also hoped to find a virgin region lying beyond El-Harrah, the volcanic tract subtending the east of the Hismá, or plateau of New Red Sandstone.
It has been abundantly supplied with water; in fact, the whole vein (thalweg) subtending the left bank would respond to tapping.
Water Street, the lower line subtending the shore.
It was quite close to me, bearing north-east by east, and subtending an angle of 12 degrees 23, and is much the steepest and most conical of all the peaks of these regions.
It is generated by the lines which cut the faces of a tetrahedron in a constant cross ratio, and therefore by those subtending the same cross ratio at the four vertices.
There follow four theorems connecting the angles at the centre, the arcs into which they divide the circumference, and the chords subtending these arcs.
The term as now used includes the bracts (empty glumes) which subtend a spikelet and the lower of the two bracts subtending the individual flower (flowering or floral glume, lemma).
In mosses the flowers consist of a few special leaves surrounding or subtending organs called archegonia.
Defn: The quarter of a circle, or of the circumference of a circle, an arc of 90º, or onesubtending a right angle at the center.
Tangent of an angle, the natural tangent of the arc subtending or measuring the angle.
Flower-clusters sessile, or on peduncles shorter than the subtending leaves --59.
Panicles short, not as long as the subtendingleaves =Goosefoot, Chenopodium murale.
Leaves lanceolate to oblong; flower-clusters equaling or exceeding the subtending bract =Three-seeded Mercury, Acalypha gracilens.
Pedicels equaling or but little longer than the calyx, and conspicuously shorter than the subtending leaf --22.
Leaves opposite (those subtending the flowers may be alternate) --20.
Pedicels much longer than the calyx, and generally equaling or exceeding the subtending leaf --24.
Bracteoles of the first order subtending the secondary cyathia II.
Bracteoles of the second ordersubtending the tertiary cyathia III.
If we draw three lines intersecting at a point, subtending angles of 60 degrees each, it is not difficult to conceive of these lines as being at right angles with one another in three-dimensional space.
Ridges practically obsolete and subtending bands of sclerenchyma slight: hence the leaf-surfaces are parallel.
Bracts subtending a flower or a cluster of flowers.
The quarter of a circle, or of the circumference of a circle, an arc of 90°, or one subtending a right angle at the center.
For in that book he proves, generally, that in right triangles the figure on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the similar and similarly placed figures described on the sides about the right angle.
With the permanent appearance of the secondary leaves the green primaries disappear and their place is taken by bud-scales, which in the spring and summer persist as scarious bracts, each subtending a fascicle of secondary leaves.
Leaves and staminate flowers in internodal position, the primary leaves along the whole length of the internode, subtending secondary leaf-fascicles on the apical, staminate flowers on the basal part.
The base of the bract subtending the leaf-fascicle, non-decurrent or decurrent 3.
Although in many places they may be descried subtending the shore in lumpy lines like detached vertebræ, and are supposed to represent the Aranga Mons of Ptolemy, they are not noticed by Barbot.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "subtending" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
