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Definition of tangent
Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of tangent is as below...
Tangent
(v. t.) A
tangent
line
curve,
or
surface;
specifically,
that
portion
of the
straight
line
tangent
to a curve that is
between
the point of
tangency
and a given line, the given line
being,
for
example,
the axis of
abscissas,
or a
radius
of a
circle
produced.
See
Trigonometrical
function,
under
Function..
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Tangency
::
Tangency
(n.) The
quality
or state of being
tangent;
a
contact
or
touching.
Helix
::
Helix (n.) A
nonplane
curve whose
tangents
are all
equally
inclined
to a given
plane.
The
common
helix is the curve
formed
by the
thread
of the
ordinary
screw.
It is
distinguished
from the
spiral,
all the
convolutions
of which are in the
plane..
Horizon
::
Horizon
(n.) A plane
passing
through
the eye of the
spectator
and at right
angles
to the
vertical
at a given
place;
a plane
tangent
to the
earth's
surface
at that
place;
called
distinctively
the
sensible
horizon.
Cusp
::
Cusp (n.) A
multiple
point of a curve at which two or more
branches
of the curve have a
common
tangent.
Tangental
::
Tangental
(a.)
Tangential.
Shear
::
Shear (v. t.) An
action,
resulting
from
applied
forces,
which tends to cause two
contiguous
parts of a body to slide
relatively
to each other in a
direction
parallel
to their plane of
contact;
-- also
called
shearing
stress,
and
tangential
stress..
Stress
::
Stress
(n.) The
force,
or
combination
of
forces,
which
produces
a
strain;
force
exerted
in any
direction
or
manner
between
contiguous
bodies,
or parts of
bodies,
and
taking
specific
names
according
to its
direction,
or mode of
action,
as
thrust
or
pressure,
pull or
tension,
shear or
tangential
stress..
Tangent
::
Tangent
(a.)
Touching;
touching
at a
single
poin.
Cotangent
::
Cotangent
(n.) The
tangent
of the
complement
of an arc or
angle.
See
Illust.
of
Functions.
Tangential
::
Tangential
(a.) Of or
pertaining
to a
tangent;
in the
direction
of a
tangent.
Subtartarean
::
Subtangent
(n.) The part of the axis
contained
between
the
ordinate
and
tangent
drawn to the same point in a
curve.
Secant
::
Secant
(a.) A right line drawn from the
center
of a
circle
through
one end of a
circular
arc, and
terminated
by a
tangent
drawn from the other end; the
number
expressing
the ratio line of this line to the
radius
of the
circle.
See
Trigonometrical
function,
under
Function..
Synclinal
::
Synclastic
(a.)
Curved
toward
the same side in all
directions;
-- said of
surfaces
which in all
directions
around
any point bend away from a
tangent
plane
toward
the same side, as the
surface
of a
sphere;
--
opposed
to
anticlastic..
Tangentially
::
Tangentially
(adv.)
In the
direction
of a
tangent.
Bitangent
::
Bitangent
(n.) A line that
touches
a curve in two
points.
Asymptote
::
Asymptote
(n.) A line which
approaches
nearer
to some curve than
assignable
distance,
but,
though
infinitely
extended,
would never meet it.
Asymptotes
may be
straight
lines or
curves.
A
rectilinear
asymptote
may be
conceived
as a
tangent
to the curve at an
infinite
distance..
Semitangent
::
Semitangent
(n.) The
tangent
of half an arc.
Envelop
::
Envelop
(n.) A curve or
surface
which is
tangent
to each
member
of a
system
of
curves
or
surfaces,
the form and
position
of the
members
of the
system
being
allowed
to vary
according
to some
continuous
law. Thus, any curve is the
envelope
of its
tangents..
Tractrix
::
Tractrix
(n.) A curve such that the part of the
tangent
between
the point of
tangency
and a given
straight
line is
constant;
-- so
called
because
it was
conceived
as
described
by the
motion
of one end of a
tangent
line as the other end was drawn along the given line.
Lemniscate
::
Lemniscate
(n.) A curve in the form of the
figure
8, with both parts
symmetrical,
generated
by the point in which a
tangent
to an
equilateral
hyperbola
meets the
perpendicular
on it drawn from the
center..
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