verb🔗ShareTo 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."The angle formed by your eye at one end of the table and your friend at the other subtends the width of the table. "mathspacetechnicalChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗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."A hypotenuse subtends the right angle of a right triangle."mathtechnicalChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo form the central angle of a circle underneath an arc"The points A and B on the circumference form the arc AB, which subtends the central angle θ."mathChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading