- 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...
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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)...
- do not have 6-metre eye
lanes available, and
either a half-size
chart subtending the same
angles at 3
metres (9.8 ft), or a
reversed chart projected and...
- any
bract that
arises on a
pedicel instead of
subtending it.
Bracts that
appear in a
whorl subtending an
inflorescence are
collectively called an involucre...
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relates the
measure of an
inscribed angle to that of the
central angle subtending the same arc. The
inscribed angle theorem appears as
Proposition 20 in...
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annual of up to 1.5 m high,
there are more than five leaf-like
bracts subtending each
cluster of flowerhead, and
these bracts are
pinnately divided. The...
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parallax and trigonometry, and is
defined as the
distance at
which 1 AU
subtends an
angle of one
arcsecond (1/3600 of a degree). The
nearest star, Proxima...
- to the object's
linear size in
millimetres (e.g. an
object of 100 mm
subtending 1 mrad is 100
metres away). So
there is no
conversion factor required...
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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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Steradians can be used to
measure a
solid angle of any shape. The
solid angle subtended is the same as that of a cone with the same
projected area. In the SI...
