subtendent

The side that subtends (is opposite) a specified angle;

Lastly, if you put BC the lesser of the sides, including the right angle for Radius, the greater side, AC, including the right angle is the tangent of ABC, the greater acute angle opposite; and the subtendent A B, is the secant of the same acute angle.

The very Subtendent line is found of an odde part; but the very subtendent of an even part is not found at one operation, but onely the Square of the Subtendent; and the greater the number of parts be, so much harder it willbe to finde out the subtendent.

That subtends; that lies opposite to a specified angle or point.

Captain Herschel expresses doubts of this, but it is evident that as the cusps closed both must have been within the space subtendent by half the length of the slit.

Make subtendent lines to them, and cut away the arches; then erect plain Looking-glasses, that may be of the same latitude, and of the same parallel lines, and the same longitude; glew them fast together, and fit them lo, that they may not be pulled asunder, as they are joyned long-ways, and erected upon a plain superficies.

That arises from; consequent.

Secularism, with its subtendent isms, may now be considered to have approached the critical or turning' point in its career.

Yet it must not be supposed that while this painter sturdily refuses to prettify or to humanize, to adopt or to invent a school, there is any hardness or lack of subtendent poetry in his art.