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tangency

[ tan-juhn-see ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

First recorded in 1810–20; tang(ent) + -ency

It is thus, for example, that vitality maintains a relation of momentary tangency to the physico-chemical structure.

To begin with, he could not decide whether, on their wedding day, there ever had been any real spiritual tangency between them.

The points of tangency, in Figure 54, become a decorative feature of the design.

It is not certain, for instance, whether Euclid meant that the circles could not cut at some other point than that of tangency.

An angle formed by a tangent and a chord drawn from the point of tangency is measured by half the intercepted arc.

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