tangent
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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, ... meer laten zien
Nederlands: raaklijn, tangens
Pools: styczna
2 tangent
Ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle.
synoniem: tan.
Nederlands: tangens
Pools: tangens, tg
Moby betekeniswoordenboek: abutter, adjoiner, air line, approach, asymptote, axis, beeline, borderer, bottleneck, bystander, chord, collision course, concentralization, concentration, concourse, concurrence, confluence, conflux, congress, convergence ... meer laten zien.
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