tangent
正切线,切线,正切,正切面
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Definitions
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- : in immediate physical contact; touching.
- : Geometry. touching at a single point, as a tangent in relation to a curve or surface.in contact along a single line or element, as a plane with a cylinder.
- : tangential.
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- : Geometry. a line or a plane that touches a curve or a surface at a point so that it is closer to the curve in the vicinity of the point than any other line or plane drawn through the point.
- : Trigonometry. the ratio of the side opposite a given angle to the side adjacent to the angle.Also called tan. a trigonometric function equal to the ratio of the ordinate of the end point of the arc to the abscissa of this end point, the origin being at the center of the circle on which the arc lies and the initial point of the arc being on the x-axis. Abbreviation: tg, tgn a straight line perpendicular to the radius of a circle at one end of an arc and extending from this point to the produced radius which cuts off the arc at its other end.
- : the upright metal blade, fastened on the inner end of a clavichord key, that rises and strikes the string when the outer end of the key is depressed.
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Examples
At no time were you allowed to venture into the wall, though you were permitted to be tangent to the wall or on a grid point along a wall.
To remove as much area as possible, each of those cuts would have been tangent to the circle while making a 45 degree angle with the sides of the square.
Solver Ian Rhile recognized that to lop off as much area from the square as possible, both cuts had to be tangent to the circle.
Then, the next morning, he did that radio show and went on his notorious tangent about Chuck Lorre.
Not every tangent Jacobson follows is particularly illuminating, as he is the first to admit.
At last the climbing trail dipped into a level tangent just below the top of the mountain.
Mr. Benjamin had been in the neighborhood, but, hearing that the enemy were in Madison, had gone off at a tangent.
The mere thought of the hospital sent her mind flying off at a tangent.
The last wipe should be a quick stroke coming off of joint on a tangent.
Two guns were for a time in the hands of the Boers, who, I believe, removed the tangent sights.