tangency
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tangency
Example Sentences
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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
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
“All I could see were these unresolved tangency breaks.”
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 16, 2015
Being the point of tangency and hence of irritation between imperial policy and colonial particularism, these officers incurred a widespread unpopularity that was easily generalized into distrust of their office.
From The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 by Corwin, Edward Samuel
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