tangent plane
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To develop a method that makes surface integrals easier to compute, we approximate surface areas ΔSij with small pieces of a tangent plane, just as we did in the previous subsection.
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If a function is differentiable at a point, then a tangent plane to the surface exists at that point.
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For a tangent plane to a surface to exist at a point on that surface, it is sufficient for the function that defines the surface to be differentiable at that point.
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A tangent plane at a regular point contains all of the lines tangent to that point.
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The nodes of the singular surface are points whose complex cones are coincident planes, and the complex conic in a singular tangent plane consists of two coincident points.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
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