Definizione monolingua

tangent

tangent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of tang?
   1. ""they will touch, they will grasp""
   2. ""they will reach, they will arrive at""
   3. ""they will attain to""
   4. ""they will move, they will affect""
   5. ""they will come home to""
   <Noun
   

   tangent (plural tangents)

   
   
   1. (geometry) A straight line touching a curve at a single point without crossing it there.
   2. (trigonometry) In a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side opposite the angle to the length of the side adjacent to the angle. Symbols: tan, tg
   3. A topic nearly unrelated to the main topic, but having a point in common with it.

      I believe we went off onto a tangent when we started talking about monkeys on unicycles at his retirement party.

      • 2009: Stuart Heritage, Hecklerspray, Friday the 22^nd of May in 2009 at 1 o’clock p.m., “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About”

        Jon & Kate Plus 8 is a show based on two facts: (1) Jon and Kate Gosselin have eight children, and (2) the word ‘Kate’ rhymes with the word ‘eight’. One suspects that if Kate were ever to have another child, a shady network executive would urge her to put it in a binbag with a brick and drop it down a well. But this is just a horrifying tangent.

   4. A small metal blade by which a clavichord produces sound.
   Adjective
   

   tangent (not comparable)

   
   
   1. (geometry) Touching a curve at a single point but not crossing it at that point.
   2. Of a topic, only loosely related to a main topic.

Definizione dizionario tangent

	tangente
	The gradient of a curve at a point. You can modify a curve that is part of a path object by using the control handles that represent the tangent of the curve.

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Altri significati:

Of a topic, only loosely related to a main topic.

A small metal blade by which a clavichord produces sound.

A topic nearly unrelated to the main topic, but having a point in common with it.

(trigonometry) In a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side opposite the angle to the length of the side adjacent to the angle. Symbols: tan, tg

in geometry

(geometry) A straight line touching a curve at a single point without crossing it there.

nearly unrelated topic

in trigonometry

(geometry) Touching a curve at a single point but not crossing it at that point.

tangent (in trigonometry)