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Definition of Subtenses
1. subtense [n] - See also: subtense
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subtenses
Literary usage of Subtenses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Institutes of Natural Philosophy: Theoretical and Practical by William Enfield, Alexander Ewing (1811)
"If GC, DC, be beginning to move from A, they are in their nascent state ; and it
is manifest, that the subtenses in this state are the same, and therefore ..."
2. Newton's Principia, First Book, Sections I., II., III.: With Notes and by Isaac Newton, Percival Frost (1878)
"Hence, curves will have the same curvature at two points, one in each, if, equal
tangents being drawn at those points, and subtenses inclined at any equal ..."
3. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas Hobbes (1839)
"The subtenses of equal angles in different circles, as the strait lines BC and
FE (in fig. 1), are to one another as the arches which they subtend. ..."
4. Newton's Principia, Sections I, II, III, with Notes and Illustrations: Also by Percival Frost, Isaac Newton (1863)
"Draw subtenses BC, be inclined at equal angles to the tangents. If BC and be were
equal, for all equal values of AC, ac, the curves would be equal and ..."
5. Euclid's Elements of Geometry, the First Six Books: To which are Added by John Allen (1822)
"and therefore in a duplicate ratio of the subtenses AB and Ab. Cnse 3. And though
the angle D should not be given, but be formed by the right line BD ..."
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