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tangency

American  
[tan-juhn-see] / ˈtæn dʒən si /

noun

  1. the state of being tangent.


Etymology

Origin of tangency

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

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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

For, by the definition which assigns to a point position without extension, there can be no tangency of points without coincidence.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 by Various

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