subtend
/suhb-tend, suhb-/US // səbˈtɛnd, sʌb- //UK // (səbˈtɛnd) //
减去,减去了,减法,减掉
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v.有主动词 verb
- 1
- : Geometry. to extend under or be opposite to: a chord subtending an arc.
- : Botany. to occur beneath or close to.
- : to form or mark the outline or boundary of.
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as inbridge
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Examples
For this purpose the condenser should subtend as large an angle as possible at the source of light.
Leverrier said it might be recognized by its disk, which, moreover, would subtend a certain angle.
And two sides of the ordinate quinquangle doe subtend 2/5 of the same.
Undersea, submarine; underspan, subtend; underslinking, subterfuge.
In like manner the two pale are bracteoles which subtend the flower proper.
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