tangent
noun
1 tangent
A straight line or plane that touches a curve or curved surface at a point but does not intersect it at that point.
Roget 199: contiguity, contact, proximity, apposition, abuttal†, juxtaposition; abutment, osculation; meeting, appulse†, rencontre†, rencounter†, syzygy [Astr.], coincidence, ... show more
Dutch: raaklijn, tangens
Polish: styczna
2 tangent
Ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle.
synonym: tan.
Dutch: tangens
Polish: tangens, tg
Moby thesaurus: abutter, adjoiner, air line, approach, asymptote, axis, beeline, borderer, bottleneck, bystander, chord, collision course, concentralization, concentration, concourse, concurrence, confluence, conflux, congress, convergence ... show more.
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