tangents
- plural of tangent.
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In Merigold he looked in on a white blues band called the Tangents and ate catfish and hush puppies at the home of a musician called Catfish.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since the distance between those Tangents or breadth of the Spectrum is not increased by the Refractions, the Diameters of the Circles are not increased thereby.
From Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Newton, Isaac, Sir
Logarithms of Numbers—Logarithmic Sines and Co-Sines, Tangents and Co-Tangents—Natural Sines and Co-Sines—Tables for Earthwork, for Setting out Curves, and for various Calculations, etc., etc., etc.
From Wrinkles in Electric Lighting by Stephen, Vincent
Tangents drawn at the points where any line through P cuts the conic meet on p; and conversely, 3.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
Thus much of the Secants and Tangents severally: It followeth of both kindes joyntly together.
From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William
