tangency
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tangency
Example Sentences
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The tangencies barely graze, or Oppenheimer chooses to share little of them.
From Washington Post
“All I could see were these unresolved tangency breaks.”
From The New Yorker
Let t be the point of tangency; draw s u and t u, cutting the cycloidal path a r in x and y.
From Project Gutenberg
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!
From Project Gutenberg
It is not certain, for instance, whether Euclid meant that the circles could not cut at some other point than that of tangency.
From Project Gutenberg
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