tangency

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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

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

From The New Yorker • Feb. 16, 2015

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

It is not certain, for instance, whether Euclid meant that the circles could not cut at some other point than that of tangency.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene