tangents
- plural of tangent.
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In Merigold he looked in on a white blues band called the Tangents and ate catfish and hush puppies at the home of a musician called Catfish.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tangents drawn at points where any line through P cuts the conic meet on p.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
Thus much of the Secants and Tangents severally: It followeth of both kindes joyntly together.
From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William
A clear conception of this fact led almost immediately to the Method of Tangents of Fermat and Barrow; and this again is the stepping-stone to the Differential Calculus,—itself a particular application of that instrument.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 by Various
Since those Tangents continue to be right Lines, every Circle which in the first Prism is more or less refracted, is exactly in the same proportion more or less refracted in the second.
From Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Newton, Isaac, Sir
