- Look up
subtend in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In geometry, an
angle subtended (from
Latin for "stretched under") by a line
segment at an arbitrary...
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smallest optotype identified subtends an
angle of five
arcminutes and the
critical distinguishing features of the
optotype subtend an
angle of one arcminute...
- shape. The
solid angle subtended is the same as that of a cone with the same
projected area. A
solid angle of one
steradian subtends a cone
aperture of approximately...
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viewed is
called the apex of the
solid angle, and the
object is said to
subtend its
solid angle at that point. In the
International System of
Units (SI)...
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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...
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element is
reduced by the
cosine of the
emission angle, the
solid angle,
subtended by
surface visible to the viewer, is
reduced by the very same amount....
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seconds of arc,
corresponding to the
foveal cone
diameter or the
angle subtended at the
nodal point of the eye. To get
reception from each cone, as it...
- the Moon is up to 14%
closer to
Earth than at
apogee (most distant), it
subtends a
solid angle which is up to 30% larger. Consequently,
given the same phase...
- this
distance and of the
width of the rope, he
could calculate the
angle subtended by the star at his
viewing point. In his Dialogue, he
reported that he...
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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...
