verb Download 🔗Share To use an angle to delimit (mark off, enclose) part of a straight or curved line, for example an arc or the opposite side of a triangle. Examples : "The 60-degree angle in my slice of pizza subtends a nice, cheesy arc of crust. " math space technical Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share (also mathematics) To extend or stretch opposite something; to be part of a straight or curved line that is opposite to and delimits an angle. Examples : "A hypotenuse subtends the right angle of a right triangle." math technical Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To form the central angle of a circle underneath an arc Examples : "The points A and B on the circumference form the arc AB, which subtends the central angle θ." math Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading