tangent plane
noun
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To the line joining the centres of the two pencils as a line in one corresponds in the other the tangent plane at its centre.
Every plane which cuts a quadric surface in a line-pair is a tangent plane.
If it lies at the infinity, the plane at infinity is a tangent plane, and the surface is called a paraboloid.
An osculating plane of the curve (see 38 below) is a tangent plane of the torse all along a generating line.
This means of course that the spiral has been cut by a plane parallel to the tangent plane.
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