tangency

[ tan-juhn-see ]

noun

Origin of tangency

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

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If there was only one such point of tangency, then you weren’t on the trail.
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It is thus, for example, that vitality maintains a relation of momentary tangency to the physico-chemical structure.
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To begin with, he could not decide whether, on their wedding day, there ever had been any real spiritual tangency between them.
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The points of tangency, in Figure 54, become a decorative feature of the design.
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It is not certain, for instance, whether Euclid meant that the circles could not cut at some other point than that of tangency.
The Teaching of Geometry | David Eugene Smith

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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