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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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