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Definition of Subtended

Subtended
Subtend Sub*tend", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Subtended; p. pr. & vb. n. Subtending.] [L. subtendere; sub under + tendere to stretch, extend. See Tend.] To extend under, or be opposed to; as, the line of a triangle which subtends the right angle; the chord subtends an arc.
Subtend
Subtend Sub*tend", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Subtended; p. pr. & vb. n. Subtending.] [L. subtendere; sub under + tendere to stretch, extend. See Tend.] To extend under, or be opposed to; as, the line of a triangle which subtends the right angle; the chord subtends an arc.

Meaning of Subtended from wikipedia

- Look up subtend in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In geometry, an angle is subtended by an arc, line segment or any other section of a curve when its...
- measured from any point in its interior is 4π sr, and the solid angle subtended at the center of a cube by one of its faces is one-sixth of that, or 2π/3 ...
- intersecting the circle in two distinct points A and B. Central angles are subtended by an arc between those two points, and the arc length is the central...
- radian. The steradian is a dimensionless unit, the quotient of the area subtended and the square of its distance from the centre. Both the numerator and...
- "standard vision" as the ability to recognize one of his optotypes when it subtended 5 minutes of arc. Thus the optotype can only be recognized if the person...
- measures one au (astronomical unit, the average Earth–Sun distance) and the subtended angle of the vertex opposite that leg measures one arcsecond (1⁄3600 of...
- in position of a star as seen from the Earth and Sun, i.e. the angle subtended at a star by the mean radius of the Earth's orbit around the Sun. The...
- {\frac {a+b}{a}}={\frac {a}{b}}} The golden angle is then the angle subtended by the smaller arc of length b. It measures approximately 137.5077640500378546463487...
- approximate angle subtended by a U.S. dime coin (18 mm) at a distance of 4 kilometres (about 2.5 mi). An arcsecond is also the angle subtended by an object...
- areas of mathematics. It is defined such that one radian is the angle subtended at the centre of a circle by an arc that is equal in length to the radius...