Subtendent
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Subtendent is a noun meaning (geometry, trigonometry) The side that subtends (is opposite) a specified angle;.
Meaning
(geometry, trigonometry) The side that subtends (is opposite) a specified angle;.
More Meanings
- (geometry) That subtends; that lies opposite to a specified angle or point.
- That arises from; consequent.
Example Sentences
An outermost, “ballooning” membrane was seen to form dilated vesicles above the subtendent “armour” layer.
Secularism, with its subtendent isms, may now be considered to have approached the critical or turning' point in its career.
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.
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.
Word Forms
- subtendents
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include nonhypotenuse, sine, subtrahend, minor, supplement, subfacet.
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