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 "
1 The collection of all tangency points is called the contract curve.
2 We can then conceive all the intricacies of tangency .
3 It is thus, for example, that vitality maintains a relation of momentary tangency to the physico-chemical structure.
4 In bringing the chisel into contact with the revolving surface, the mathematical principle of the "point of tangency " is illustrated.
5 To 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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