tangency
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tangency
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In so doing, we can observe the point of tangency at as shown in Figure 19.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 1, 2021
Find parametric equations of the line passing through the origin and the point of tangency.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
“All I could see were these unresolved tangency breaks.”
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 16, 2015
He then spoke of the opportunities that now exist, if the material permits, to take a more elegant path from one line to another; he talked of tangency breaks and Bézier surfaces.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 16, 2015
Lucrezia Floriani, though perhaps more suggestive of Chopin than of Musset, but with "tangency" on both, will be discussed in the text.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury
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