Subtends Definition

Subtends Sentence Examples

• The earth would intercept an amount of it proportional to the solid angle it subtends at the sun; that is to say, it would receive a deposit of meteoric matter about one-tenth of a millimetre, of density say 2, over its whole surface in the course of the year.

• This constant length subtends an angle of about 40" at the earth; the " constant of aberration " is half this angle.

• The galaxy subtends an area 17 by 13 arc minutes in size.