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Перевод: subtend

[глагол]
стягивать; стягивать дугу; противолежать (о стороне треугольника)

Тезаурус:

1. Electrophysiological techniques have revealed units within the optic lobe mediating different visual functions: some respond to movement of small parts of the visual field, others react to long, contrasting boundaries moving in a preferred direction; some subtend monocular visual fields, others cover the whole receptive area of both eyes, and so on.
2. From a point outside the ellipse two tangents can be drawn, and they subtend equal angles at a focus.
3. By killing off the stable element of the fictional character, she abandons a realist notion of the individual identity and the narrative norms which subtend it, freeing the way for a concept of subjectivity and a form of writing in which these factors do not come into play.
4. Thru demonstrates by means of a parodic conflation and manipulation of selected literary theories the problems inherent in such an approach to literature, and it uncovers the value-laden stories which subtend it.
5. The shape of a beak is described by the ratio of its length to its depth, and its curvature; similarly, the position of eyes may be characterised as the angle which they subtend at the centre of the bird's head.