For the same reason the travellers were unable to sight the immense development of granite-embedded quartz, which lurks amongst the hills to the inland or east, and which here subtends the whole coast-line.
The greatest feat is an aqueduct which, sanded over in the upper part, subtends the left side of the valley.
The country, level and grassy, begins the region north of the great forest-zone which subtends the maritime mangrove swamps.
Beginning a little east of the Esyámo village, the Pápá lagoon subtends the coast.
Defn: To extend under, or be opposed to; as, the line of a triangle which subtends the right angle; the chord subtends an arc.
To-day's dinner subtends a larger visual angle than yesterday's revolution.
If a man can tell me a fact which subtends an appreciable angle in the horizon of thought, I am as receptive as the contribution-box in a congregation of colored brethren.
The water, represented to be near, is nowhere nearer than a two hours' march for camels; and it is mostly derived from rain-puddles in the great range of mountains which subtends maritime Midian.
The upper leaf subtends or incloses the flower bud.
The upper leaf subtends or encloses the flower bud.
This is due to the fact that the light-source now becomes apparently larger; that is, being of a given size it now subtends a larger angle at the reflector and departs more from the theoretical point.
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.
As this group subtends an angle of three degrees only at the house where we dwelt, it long served me to compare the variations of the terrestrial refraction with the meteorological phenomena.
Even when Venus is nearest to the earth the diameter of the planetsubtends an angle not much more than one minute of arc.
In the technical language of astronomers, we may state that the longest diameter of the ellipse never subtends an angle of more than one and a half seconds.
From this it appears that the angle which the earth's equatorial radius subtends at the centre of the sun when at its mean distance has the value 8"·802.
The same object, if it subtends an angle of a minute, or the sixtieth part of a degree, indicates by the measurement of its angle that it is 60 times more distant, i.
When the distance of an object is unknown, the only means of expressing its apparent size is by measurement of the angle which it subtends before our eyes.
We can therefore lay down the rule that the apparent size of an object depends on the angle that it subtendsat the eye.
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