tangential
切向,切向的,切线,切向性
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- : pertaining to or of the nature of a tangent; being or moving in the direction of a tangent.
- : merely touching; slightly connected: tangential information.
- : divergent or digressive, as from a subject under consideration: tangential remarks.
- : tending to digress or to reply to questions obliquely.
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Examples
The rumor about Alfa Bank that never amounted to anything was, at best, tangential.
However, the decision does affirm the Supreme Court’s recognition of the importance of “vigorous enforcement of the antitrust laws in maintaining a competitive economy,” as Rifkin says, which could have some tangential impacts on other cases.
The show is so tangential to their fame now, which exists largely on social media and in their entrepreneurial ventures, that it doesn’t have anything new to say.
Sprinkled throughout the film are some tangential insights in the commercial life of a truffle after it’s been plucked out of the ground.
A tangential answer to your question would be, what am I proudest of?
Tangential characters are combined into composites or eliminated entirely; the same holds for certain events.
Once again the idea came from a tangential story she came across researching Unbroken.
“Many view the straw poll as almost tangential to all the happenings of CPAC,” said Republican political consultant Brian Donahue.
Four tangential slots (C) are cut into the perimeter of the pulley (B), and in each is a hardened steel roller (D).
He was positive there had been another section on top, shooting off at an angle, representing a problem in tangential stress.
He ran off to orbit at escape velocity on a pattern that would probably run in a straight path to infinity.