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Meanings of tangent in inglés
Ratio of lengths of opposite side and the adjacent side of a right angled triangle; a trigonometric function.
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Examples for "tan"
Examples for "tan"
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And, of course, he has no problem talking about his perpetual tan.
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There was the year when someone told Rashida Jones she looked tan.
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Rather than giving up completely, a gradual tan is a good option.
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Wallman's tan and his taste in jewelry are common among his colleagues.
5
Enormous sand dunes shouldered the beach and rippled inland like tan water.
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It starts with the inverse tangent function.
Usage of tangent in inglés
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There's a tangent about whether goat farmers should remove their animals' horns.
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The tangent drawn here passes through the optimum selected by the SWF.
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The straight course is life, the tangent disease, the saving lunge recovery.
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Block and slab were aligned on a tangent with the target stand.
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On a straight stretch or tangent section, there are no lateral forces.
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Some one said that he went off at a tangent in 1912.
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Sometimes they would dart at a tangent to hover in another place.
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The alewife saw this and moved at a tangent to intercept him.
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And then he went off at a tangent from his own anecdote.
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From these conflicting influences resulted a line which might become a tangent.
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Perhaps we squandered the dialogue in tangent topics, in a multitude of irrelevances.
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This tangent thus also determines the price ratio of wages and capital rent.
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Presently the rabbit sees the second Indian, and dashes off at a tangent.
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I often try, but my mind flies off in a tangent.
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The spear struck his shield at a tangent and glanced off.
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Instead, we need to do a Taylor Series expansion of the inverse tangent.
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Translations for tangent
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Tangent through the time
Tangent across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
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