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tangency

[tan-juhn-see] / ˈtæn dʒən si /
NOUN
contingence
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In so doing, we can observe the point of tangency at as shown in Figure 19.

From Textbooks Dec. 1, 2021

Find parametric equations of the line passing through the origin and the point of tangency.

From Textbooks Mar. 30, 2016

He then spoke of the opportunities that now exist, if the material permits, to take a more elegant path from one line to another; he talked of tangency breaks and Bézier surfaces.

From The New Yorker Feb. 16, 2015

“All I could see were these unresolved tangency breaks.”

From The New Yorker Feb. 16, 2015

It is thus, for example, that vitality maintains a relation of momentary tangency to the physico-chemical structure.

From A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson by Vincent Benson




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