Ratio of lengths of opposite side and the adjacent side of a right angled triangle; a trigonometric function.
Term in mathematics; straight line touching a point in a curve.
1 There's a tangent about whether goat farmers should remove their animals' horns.
2 The tangent drawn here passes through the optimum selected by the SWF.
3 The straight course is life, the tangent disease, the saving lunge recovery.
4 Block and slab were aligned on a tangent with the target stand.
5 On a straight stretch or tangent section, there are no lateral forces.
6 Some one said that he went off at a tangent in 1912.
7 Sometimes they would dart at a tangent to hover in another place.
8 The alewife saw this and moved at a tangent to intercept him.
9 And then he went off at a tangent from his own anecdote.
10 From these conflicting influences resulted a line which might become a tangent .
11 Perhaps we squandered the dialogue in tangent topics, in a multitude of irrelevances.
12 This tangent thus also determines the price ratio of wages and capital rent.
13 Presently the rabbit sees the second Indian, and dashes off at a tangent .
14 I often try, but my mind flies off in a tangent .
15 The spear struck his shield at a tangent and glanced off.
16 Instead, we need to do a Taylor Series expansion of the inverse tangent .
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