Usually means: Angle formed by object's endpoints.
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  1. subtended: Merriam-Webster
  2. subtended: Collins English Dictionary
  3. subtended: Vocabulary.com
  4. subtended: Wordnik
  5. subtended: Wiktionary
  6. subtended: Dictionary.com
  7. Subtended: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Subtended: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Subtended: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. subtended: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. subtended: FreeDictionary.org
  12. subtended: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. subtended: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (subtend)

verb:  (transitive, mathematics) 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.
verb:  (transitive, 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.
verb:  (transitive, mathematics) To form the central angle of a circle underneath an arc.
verb:  (botany, transitive) To stand beneath or close to, as a bract at the base of a flower.
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