subtend

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• /sʌbˈtɛnd/
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From Latin subtendere, from sub (“under”) + tendere (“to stretch, extend”), itself a semantic loan from Ancient Greek ὑποτείνω (hupoteínō, “to subtend”), from which hypotenuse also derives. See tend.

12 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Ido: klozar arko — to use an angle to delimit part of a straight or curved line
• Russian: стя́гивать (stjágivatʹ) — to use an angle to delimit part of a straight or curved line
• Vietnamese: chắn (cung) — to use an angle to delimit part of a straight or curved line
• Bulgarian: принадлежа (prinadleža) — to extend or stretch opposite something, often to delimit an angle
• French: sous-tendre — to extend or stretch opposite something, often to delimit an angle
• German: sich erstrecken gegenüber von — to extend or stretch opposite something, often to delimit an angle
• German: gegenüberliegen — to extend or stretch opposite something, often to delimit an angle
• German: abschneiden — to extend or stretch opposite something, often to delimit an angle
• German: begrenzen — to extend or stretch opposite something, often to delimit an angle
• Hungarian: bezár — to extend or stretch opposite something, often to delimit an angle
• Italian: sottendere — to extend or stretch opposite something, often to delimit an angle
• Turkish: karşılık gelmek — to extend or stretch opposite something, often to delimit an angle