Relation where one item's edge/surface touches the other's at a single point.
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Examples for "tangency"
Examples for "tangency"
1The collection of all tangency points is called the contract curve.
2We can then conceive all the intricacies of tangency.
3It is thus, for example, that vitality maintains a relation of momentary tangency to the physico-chemical structure.
4In bringing the chisel into contact with the revolving surface, the mathematical principle of the "point of tangency" is illustrated.
5To begin with, he could not decide whether, on their wedding day, there ever had been any real spiritual tangency between them.
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