Subtend

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. Mathematics To be opposite to and delimit: The side of a triangle subtends the opposite angle.
  • v. To underlie so as to enclose or surround: flowers subtended by leafy bracts.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To extend or stretch underneath or opposite something
  • v. To enclose an arc on a circle with an angle
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To extend under, or be opposed to.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To extend under or be opposite to: a geometrical terra: as, the side of a triangle which subtends the right angle.
  • In botany, to embrace in its axil, as a leaf, bract, etc.: as, in many Compositæ the florets are subtended by bracts called chaff.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. be opposite to; of angles and sides, in geometry
  • Verb Form
    subtended    subtending    subtends   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    be   
    Form
    subtended    subtending