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tangency

[tan-juhn-see]

noun

  1. the state of being tangent.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of tangency1

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

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The tangencies barely graze, or Oppenheimer chooses to share little of them.

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“All I could see were these unresolved tangency breaks.”

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Let t be the point of tangency; draw s u and t u, cutting the cycloidal path a r in x and y.

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A circle is a happy thing to be— Think how the joyful perpendicular Erected at the kiss of tangency Must meet my central point, my avatar!

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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.

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