Sentence example with the word 'tangent'

tangent

abutter, axis, chord, concurrence, converging, directrix, great-circle course, mutual approach, onlooker, secant, straight, streamline

Definition n. a straight line or plane that touches a curve or curved surface at a point but does not intersect it at that point

Last update: August 9, 2015


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The mathematics teacher taught tangent to the students.   [Please select]

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Upper and lower tangent arcs and a faint 22ยบ halo.   [Please select]

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Thus the change in angle is given by where Assuming the is small we may approximate the tangent function by its small argument expansion.   [Please select]

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Though that halfbaked Lyons ran off at a tangent in his impetuosity to get left.   [Please select]

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What sound accompanied the union of their tangent, the disunion of their (respectively) centrifugal and centripetal hands.   [Please select]

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- Dispart and Tangent Sights.   [Please select]

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Presently the rabbit sees the second Indian, and dashes off at a tangent.   [Please select]

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"He flies off at a tangent over the smallest things."   [Please select]

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Tangential: set in or meeting at a tangent; applied to ornamentation and processes.   [Please select]

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2 is a circle which contains an ellipse, tangent to the circle at Q and P.   [Please select]

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Draw a straight line from Newton to Young, tangent to the heads of both.   [Please select]

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